Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried a casual paragraph or two each day of the trial. But one reporter at the press table in Seattle filed a thumping 1,500 to 2,500 words a night to New York, and got no squawks from his employer. He was greying, 41-year-old William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany. His employer: Tass, short for Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union...
...Russian paper out of the 8,639 dailies and weeklies served by the Tass monopoly was likely to use much of Dodd's voluminous copy. But his between-jobs assignment as a Tass stringer in Seattle last week (he was about to become Harry Bridges' publicity man) was typical of the way the world's least-known big news agency operates. It feeds vastly more wordage (an estimated 200,000 words a day) into its six-floor Moscow nerve center than Russian editors ever...
...busy decision day, the Court handed down two other notable rulings. It gave balm to three New Dealers-Robert Morss Lovett, Goodwin B. Watson, and William E. Dodd-whose salaries had been withheld in 1943 by Congress merely because they had been dubbed "radical" by the Dies Committee. The Court called Congress' action a "bill of attainder"-and gave Congress the hardest rap in more than a decade...
...Merrick Dodd...
British Chamber of Commerce Chairman John S. Dodd growled back: "If Mr. Shinwell will concentrate on producing more coal and refrain from spending time on threats and talk of 'bunkum,' there is a fairly good chance we shall produce our goods before he produces...