Word: tass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old correspondent listened impassively and scribbled notes. He wore a conservative suit, glasses and a brooding look; he might have been the correspondent for a Midwestern daily. But Larry Todd is reporting for no corn-belt readers. He is senior correspondent of the official Russian news agency Tass in Washington, D.C., and registered as such with the Department of Justice...
...Nottawa, Mich., but there the plainness ends. Swayed by Edward Bellamy's Equality and a speech by Eugene V. Debs, young Todd joined the Socialist Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became a full-time Tassman in 1933. Todd insists he is not a Communist Party member, but makes clear his belief that Russia can do no wrong...
Larry Todd, Washington correspondent of the official Soviet news agency Tass, and Rob Hall, Washington correspondent of the Communist New York Daily Worker, may sit in the Senate and House press galleries, take all the notes they want. But as "Government propagandists," Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty, who cover Congress for the State Department's Voice of America, may not. If they can find seats, they may sit in the public galleries, but like other spectators, may not take notes. In reporting debates they must rely on their memories, or wait for the next day's Congressional Record...
Last week in Washington, there was agitation against Propagandists Todd and Hall, and for Propagandists Sitrick and McGroarty. Movie Star Harold (The Best Years of Our Lives) Russell, national commander of Amvets, called for ousting the Tass and Worker representatives from the press galleries. Many Washington newsmen disagreed: they thought this might infringe upon freedom of the press, might also provoke Soviet reprisals against the few U.S. correspondents still in Moscow (TIME, Nov. 7). As for the Voice of America, a committee of Senate periodicals (magazine) correspondents proposed relaxing the rules: let them sit in the diplomatic gallery and take...
...Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, last week refused to answer a reporter's question about the H-bomb's "ultimate cost." Said McMahon: "We have in this room a representative of a news agency [Tass] that transmits every word of what I say to the Soviet Union . . . I'm tired of making it any easier for them than I have...