Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Truth" & Co. Redin's trial and acquittal, like all Tass news from the U.S., was relayed through its bureau in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Except for four Washington correspondents, headed by earnest, well-liked Larry Todd, its U.S. staff of 18 reporters is based in New York. (The Russians limit each U.S. news organization in Moscow to one or two correspondents.) Only five of Tass's 18 U.S. men are Russians...
...agency's U.S. boss is black-haired Vladimir Pravdin (translation: "Man of Truth"), veteran Tassman now vacationing in the U.S.S.R. with his family. Acting director for the summer is slim handsome, secretive Alexander Alexandrov 32 who has spent three of his nine Tass years in the U.S., says he is not a Party member...
Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...