Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow statement, wrapped up in a brief dispatch by the Tass news agency, noted coldly that various reports about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...
Overnight, Columnist Coffin's shot in the dark was heard around the world. Diplomats in Paris talked it up. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano came out strongly for a meeting between Harry and Joe. Moscow papers gave a significantly big play to a Tass dispatch quoting Coffin's prediction...
...Lomakin began going places in 1939. He had graduated from a Moscow technical school as a "management engineer," had written articles on Marxist economy, and taken a course on how to become a foreign correspondent. In 1939, when he was 35, Jake was sent to New York as a Tass correspondent. Two years later he was made vice consul in New York City, and a year later, consul general in San Francisco...
Industrialist John C. Virden, who had resigned his job in the Commerce Department because his daughter Euphemia had a job at Tass (TIME, May 31), heard some kind words last week. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer asked him to come back. Harry Truman added his blessing, said Virden was being sacrificed to "political expediency." With that, Virden withdrew his resignation, went back to the top desk in Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation...
Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...