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Word: hawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret British information intended for Washington is usually handed to the U. S. Embassy in London for transmission in code. When various items began to turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spy in the Code Room | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...premises a large variety for HARV's listeners, which will include broadcasts of Browne and Nichols football tussels, rebroadcasts of Germany's short-wave propagandist. Lord Haw-Haw, and of London news commentaries, and music from jam session to symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK YIELDS HEATING PIPES TO NEW 40-WATT STATION | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

Berlin's English-language broadcaster, Lord Haw-Haw, last week restated Rome's case in terms requiring no Italian editing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Lord Haw-Haw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Napoleon" Churchill. Nazis and Communists throughout the world opened immediate propaganda fire on the Defense Bill. "We are mildly surprised that the British Government found itself compelled to introduce a measure such as has never been considered in Germany," sneered Nazi Broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, describing "Churchill's attempt to make himself a Napoleon." Said His Lordship: "There are a number of people in lunatic asylums who . . . have quite as much chance of saving England as Mr. Churchill has. But now that Democracy [in England] has received the last kick of farewell, what is the war aim which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Democracy in Pawn | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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