Word: nast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over slivers of goose liver at Horcher's in Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine...
...sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition...
...Cartoonist Carey Orr of Chicago Trib une Syndicate published the fourth of a series of cartoons obviously modeled on the vicious tiger drawings with which the late great Cartoonist Thomas Nast once drove Tammany out of office. The Orr creation: a black panther labeled "New Dealism." A none too brilliant imitation, the black panther wore a collar variously labeled "Communism," "Hungry for Power," "Radicals," "Tyranny...
...General something of the air of a small boy unaware of the ruination around him. Only in his drawings of Chamberlain does Cartoonist Low seem unreservedly angry, and his campaign against the Prime Minister gives promise of belonging with the great performances of its type, the war of Thomas Nast against Boss Tweed, of Homer Davenport against Mark Hanna...
...Hoover's one specific proposal was that Europe's War debts to the U. S. be used for exchanging international scholarships. *Republican elephant like the Democratic donkey first appeared in cartoons by famed Thomas Nast...