Word: nast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably Editor Samuels was told to apply what tricks he may have learned while watching, as Publisher Raoul H. Fleichmann's overseer, the clever editors of the New Yorker, to make Smart Sef compete with that weekly, as well as with Conde Nast's lily-gilding Vanity Fair...
...Condé Nast, publisher...
...situation sounded exciting when Mr. Nast also said: "Vogue has brought suit against many of them [infringers] in the past, and has yet to lose a case...
Quick with friendly interest in Publisher Nast's plight were not only Vogue's readers, but other publishers, who eyed each other suspiciously to see who had been treating a brother so. The files of public prints were examined. Publisher Nast's lawyers were interrogated. And then the other publishers had to applaud Publisher Nast...
There had been, it appeared, only one suit: in 1926 Vogue obtained an injunction against a Toledo department store to stop it selling "Vogue" hats. Several times subsequently Vogue had threatened similar actions and obtained satisfaction out of court. But despite Publisher Nast's insinuation, no newspapers or magazines had ever been involved. Publisher Nast had not been villainously put upon by unscrupulous publishing competitors. His appeal "to protect Vogue's originality," was simply another manifestation of the thing advertised, "Vogue's originality...