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Word: aliases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The British had caught William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg, and they knew exactly what to do with him. He stood accused of one of the oldest crimes known to man: treason.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCCUPATION: Renegade's Return | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

When fire broke out on two more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Detonator & Dream | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Hirsch, alias The Professor. Even Tom Ryan, the cherub-faced sexton, had another name-George Lanoway. He had been arrested 19 times, had gone to Sing Sing for a five-year stretch in 1930.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Piety in Hell's Kitchen | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Ralph Wilby (alias Alexander Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Jackpot | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

In the mob were another Canadian, five more U.S. soldiers. Three days later, after routine detective work, a police net dragged in the mob leader: a 23-year-old U.S. soldier from the State of Pennsylvania, identified only by an alias "Robert Lane."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mobster Abroad | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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