Word: tass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squat, rumpled Mikhail Fedorov, 32, boss of the four-man Washington staff of Russia's Tass, is an aeronautical engineer, and worked at his profession in the U.S.S.R. When he came to Washington three years ago, Fedorov insisted that he also had some training with Tass in Moscow. But most Washington newsmen have come to the conclusion that he knows little of the newspaper business, though they concede that his engineering training is handy for the kind of intelligence reports done by Tass for Russian officials...
...news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that the U.N. delegation would insist on press representation at Kaesong. Said he: "We hope for equal coverage with Tass men." Reporters in the room groaned...
...literally everything we are doing. But if you can tell me one thing on the other side, I'll be very grateful. That's an awfully hard way to make war." Marshall paused and looked around at a group of newsmen which included Evgeny Egorov, chubby, blond Tass correspondent in Tokyo. "We are certainly working at a tremendous disadvantage," the Defense Secretary sighed. "That's democracy-but I think democracy has got to watch itself...
...sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news agencies (including Russia's Tass), which had ordered the transcript at 12½? a page...
...however, when he found himself whipsawed by U.S. negligence and fumbling, by British hard-dealing, and by the venal Majlis, every member of which would like to be Premier himself. Lately, Razmara made several safety-first concessions to Russia, e.g., banning the Voice of America and BBC broadcasts, allowing Tass, the Soviet news agency, to operate freely...