Word: tass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist stalwarts and was toughened in proletarian struggle by two-and-a-half years of feverish work as propagandist member of the SaccoVanzetti Defense Committee. For a year he edited in Manhattan the Soviet Russia Pictorial. From this he graduated to assistant director of the New York office of TASS, then as now the official news agency of the Soviet State. Its director succeeded in interesting President Karl A. Bickel of United Press in Mr. Lyons, and when U. P. finally gave him the job of its Moscow correspondent Gene was as sure as his TASS colleagues that what...
...continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press and the United Press...
Doletsky and his Tass gang, according to The Ural Worker, tried to undermine the foundations of Soviet achievement by putting on Tass wires invariably rosy accounts of successes of the Five-Year Plans and achievements of leading Bolsheviks. "Instead of unmasking the shortcomings of Sverdlovsk industry and the mismanagement of collective farms," declared The Ural Worker, "Tass published a flowery story about the arrival of spring. . . . Thus Doletsky and his accomplices carried out the dictates of Fascist bosses...
...whose Russian friends would risk their lives to avenge him. After the death sentence was passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents not so much expected as awaited. They were handed one day last week a bulletin in which the Soviet official agency Tass stated that at 5:30 p.m. on the day before, at the high-walled Kremlin Fortress in which live Dictator Stalin and the rest of the Biggest Reds, sudden death had come to the Commissar for Heavy Industry by "paralysis of the heart...
...episode reminded observers of the Tass report three years ago on the death in the Kremlin of the Dictator's young and robust wife (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932). She had been seen by hundreds of Moscowites attending a play two nights before, visibly in high spirits, yet the official verdict was death "after long illness." It was said that she always insisted on tasting the Dictator's food before letting him touch it, and ever since her passing, which affected Stalin so deeply that he had her buried in consecrated ground, any death in the Kremlin...