celerycola
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It was Harold Hirsch who hired an army of Pinkerton detectives for Coca-Cola, sending them across the country 1910-1916. They were instructed to find druggists, confectioners, and mom-and-pop store owners selling anything other than Coca-Cola and threaten them with legal action from their multinational employer. When threats failed, they simply dragged the poor shopkeepers into the street and beat them up.
Harold Hirsch was the leading general for Coca-Cola (and likely the model for the protagonist in the only novel on Coca-Cola).
If you want to know what was going on in the trenches in the Kola Wars you need to research Harry Nims. Harry was the brains and the brawn who actually led the legal battles for Coca-Cola in the courts. He was such an expert in unfair competition and trademark law that his book on the subject was the standard textbook in law schools for sixty years.
Harry Nims law files were sold by his family a couple of years ago and are in a private collection.
Harold Hirsch was the leading general for Coca-Cola (and likely the model for the protagonist in the only novel on Coca-Cola).
If you want to know what was going on in the trenches in the Kola Wars you need to research Harry Nims. Harry was the brains and the brawn who actually led the legal battles for Coca-Cola in the courts. He was such an expert in unfair competition and trademark law that his book on the subject was the standard textbook in law schools for sixty years.
Harry Nims law files were sold by his family a couple of years ago and are in a private collection.
ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB
For anyone interested in doing additional research on this topic, here's an individual whose name I do not believe has been mentioned yet and might worth looking into. I have not researched him myself.
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Harold Hirsch
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