Word: tass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oumansky was long associated with TASS, the official Soviet News Agency, and served in many European capitals as its representatives...
...Tokyo four wild-eyed young men, members of one of Japan's patriotic societies (Kenkokukai) invaded the offices of the Soviet Tass News Agency, attempted to bluff Red reporters into leaving the country. Around the Soviet embassy Japanese police set a close guard, arrested Japanese interpreters, Japanese language teachers and other Japanese employes on suspicion of espionage, opened parcels. Announced Moscow's Izvestia: "The Japanese attitude toward the embassy of a foreign state is unprecedented in civilized countries...
Sensation of Ethiopia today are newly arrived Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of His Imperial Majesty for Bolsheviks to gape...
...make a mistake if they let their giddiness over successes against China lead them to think Russia would be an equally easy victim." To a Japanese rumor that Russia was on the verge of annexing vast Sinkiang Province in Western China as a Soviet republic, the Soviet news agency Tass spluttered, "Shameful, provocative lies, apparently manufactured by those circles which specialize in forming so-called 'independent governments' in Chinese provinces...
...Everyone appeared to enjoy the spectacle, hissing the assassin and applauding Comrade Kirov," innocently telegraphed the local Soviet Tass Agency reporter. "Afterward the actors received prizes for their efforts...