By what name was William Joyce better known in the 1940's?
"Dorothy Eckersley got him an audition at the Rundfunkhaus (""""broadcasting house""""). Eckersley was the former wife or second wife of the Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Peter Eckersley. Despite having a heavy cold and almost losing his voice, he was recruited immediately for radio announcements and scriptwriting at German radio's English service. William Joyce replaced Wolf Mittler. The name ""Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen"" was coined in 1939 by the pseudonymous ""Daily Express"" radio critic Jonah Barrington, but this referred initially to Wolf Mittler (or possibly Norman Baillie-Stewart). When Joyce became the best-known propaganda broadcaster, the nickname was transferred"
"James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for ""Ulysses"" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's ""Odyssey"" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914), and the novels ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (1916) and ""Finnegans Wake"" (1939)."
"propaganda broadcasts; though Goebbels claimed in his ""Das Reich"" article that it was to make the radio a good companion to the people, he admitted the truth in his diary. As well as domestic broadcasts, the Nazi regime used radio to deliver its message to both occupied territories and enemy states. One of the main targets was the United Kingdom, to which William Joyce broadcast regularly, gaining the nickname 'Lord Haw-Haw'. Joyce first appeared on German radio on 6 September 1939 reading the news in English but soon became noted for his often mischievous propaganda broadcasts. Joyce was executed in"
"to the 1904 Republican National Convention. Joyce was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1911). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1916. He died in Cambridge, Ohio, March 25, 1931. He was interred in the mausoleum in Northwood Cemetery. James Joyce (congressman) James Joyce (July 2, 1870 – March 25, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Cumberland,"
"of the Lord Haw-Haw nickname and came to announce him as ""William Joyce, otherwise known as Lord Haw-Haw"". After Joyce took over, Mittler was paired with the American-born announcer Mildred Gillars in the Axis Sally programme and also broadcast to ANZAC forces in North Africa. Mittler survived the war and appeared on postwar German radio, and occasionally television, until his death. Baillie-Stewart was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany just as the war ended, tried, and eventually hanged for treason on 3 January 1946. Joyce's defence team, appointed by the court, argued"
"John Joyce (footballer) John William Joyce (26 June 1877 – June 1956) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for various clubs between 1898 and 1920. Throughout his career, he was known to supporters as ""Tiny"" in allusion to his size, being tall and weighing over . Joyce was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire and started his football career with his home-town club, Burton Pioneers, before spells with two clubs in neighbouring Derbyshire, Woodville and Overseal Town. Whilst playing for Overseal Town, he was spotted by scouts from Southern League champions Southampton, for whom he was signed"
"Archibald Joyce Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 – 22 March 1963) was an English light music composer known for his early waltzes. He first came to prominence with the publication of his Waltz ""Songe d'Automne"" (1908) which fast became a hit. The piece is in a minor key, with the melody in a relatively low tenor register. The following year he repeated this success with his Waltz ""Visions of Salome"" (1909) also in the same low-pitched minor-key style. He was billed by his publishers, Ascherberg Hopwood and Crew, as the ""English Waltz King"". His music was immensely popular with dance"
"to arrange things in such a way that they become easy to survey and to judge.' On 11 January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zurich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. He fell into a coma the following day. He awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January 1941, and asked a nurse to call his wife and son, before losing consciousness again. They were en route when he died 15 minutes later, less than a month short of his 59th birthday. His body was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich. The Swiss tenor Max Meili sang ""Addio terra, addio cielo"" from"
"to Nazi Germany just before the war began to avoid arrest by British authorities and became a naturalised German citizen. He made propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis, becoming infamous under the nickname Lord Haw Haw. Captured by British forces in May 1945, he was tried for treason later that year. Although Joyce's defence argued that he was by birth American and thus not subject to being tried for treason, the prosecution successfully argued that Joyce's pre-war British passport meant that he was a subject of the British Crown and he was convicted. After his appeals failed, he was hanged at"
"Patrick Weston Joyce Patrick Weston Joyce, commonly known as P.W. Joyce (1827 – 7 January 1914) was an Irish historian, writer and music collector, known particularly for his research in Irish etymology and local place names of Ireland. He was born in Ballyogan in the Ballyhoura Mountains, on the borders of counties Limerick and Cork in Ireland, and grew up in nearby Glenosheen. The family claimed descent from one Seán Mór Seoighe (fl. 1680), a stonemason from Connemara, County Galway. Robert Dwyer Joyce was a younger brother. Joyce was a native Irish speaker who started his education at a hedge"
"rather than treason.) William Brooke Joyce was born on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, New York, United States. His father was Michael Francis Joyce (9 December 1866 – 19 February 1941) an Irish Catholic from a family of farmers in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, who had taken United States citizenship on 25 October 1894. His mother was Gertrude Emily Brooke, who although born in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, England, was from a well-off Anglican Anglo-Irish family of medical practitioners associated with County Roscommon. A few years after William's birth, the family returned to Salthill, Galway, permanently. Joyce attended Coláiste Iognáid, a Jesuit"
"William Joyce (writer) William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1957) is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker. His illustrations have appeared on numerous covers of ""The New Yorker"" and his paintings are displayed nationwide. For the short film ""The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"" (2011), Joyce won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards. He has written and illustrated over fifty children's books including ""George Shrinks"", ""Santa Calls"", ""Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo"", ""Rolie Polie Olie"", ""The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs"" and ""A Day with"
"with similar views, and he became a regular visitor to the Right Club. Kent later revealed to Wolkoff and Ramsay some of the documents that he was holding in his flat that he had stolen from the embassy, most notably on sensitive communications between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. On 13 April 1940, Wolkoff went to Kent's flat to borrow some of the documents to have them photographed, as it emerged later. Her espionage work took a downturn when she then approached De Muncke and asked her if she could pass a coded letter to William Joyce through her Italian"
"Stanislaus Joyce John Stanislaus Joyce (December 17, 1884 – June 16, 1955) was an Irish teacher, scholar, diarist and writer who lived for many years in Trieste. He was the younger brother of James Joyce. He was generally known as Stanislaus Joyce to distinguish him from his father, who shared the same name. Born in County Dublin, Stanislaus was considered a ""whetstone"" by his more famous brother, who shared his ideas and his books with him. He was three years younger than James, and a constant boyhood companion. Stanislaus rebelled against his native Ireland as his brother had done, and,"
"William Joyce (""Lord Haw-Haw"") who attacked him by name in his propaganda broadcasts, incorrectly claiming that he was of Jewish descent. Shortly before his death he had transferred 79% of the shares in Ellerman Lines Ltd to grant-making trusts: The Moorgate Fund, established 1970, and The New Moorgate Fund, established 1971, were amalgamated as The John Ellerman Foundation in 1992. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1973. Upon his death, he left £52 million which, after adjusting for inflation, was less than he had inherited. Ellerman had no children. Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet Sir John Reeves Ellerman,"
"the north German station operated, under the name of Reichssender Hamburg, as an integral part of the national broadcasting organization RRG – now controlled by Joseph Goebbels's Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and known from 1 January 1939 as Großdeutscher Rundfunk. Externally, the Reichssender Hamburg transmitted propaganda material to listeners overseas – in particular to those living in the British Isles – and, during World War II, broadcast regular programming aimed at sapping the morale of the civilian population of the United Kingdom. Its most famous wartime broadcaster in English was William Joyce (popularly known, from his accent"
"Graham Joyce Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 – 9 September 2014) was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the World Fantasy Award, for both his novels and short stories. He grew up in a small mining village just outside Coventry to a working-class family. After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from the University of Leicester in 1980. Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988. He subsequently quit his position and moved to the"
"Michael S. Joyce Michael S. Joyce (July 5, 1942 – February 24, 2006) was an American conservative activist. Michael S. Joyce was born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 5, 1942. He grew up in a family of blue-collar Catholic Democrats. He attended Kent State University but transferred to Cleveland State University, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in history and philosophy in 1967. He received a Ph.D. in education from Walden University in 1974. His first job was as a high school history teacher in Cleveland. In 1968, he took a job at the Educational Research Council of America,"
"broadcaster in English for most of the war, and became a naturalised German citizen; he is usually regarded as Lord Haw-Haw, even though he was probably not the person to whom the term originally referred. He had a peculiar hybrid accent that was not of the conventional upper class variety. His distinctive nasal pronunciation of ""Germany calling, Germany calling"" may have been the result of a fight as a schoolboy that left him with a broken nose. Joyce, initially an anonymous broadcaster like the others, eventually revealed his real name to his listeners. The Germans actually capitalised on the fame"
"James Joyce, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Tom Kettle. He helped form a branch of the Gaelic League at college and persuaded his friends, including Joyce, to take lessons in Irish. He played hurling and was a good friend of Michael Cusack. With Arthur Griffin he joined the Celtic Literary Society. He graduated in 1904 and found a teaching position at Clongowes Wood College. Due to ill health he had to return to his home at Grange. In 1908 he came to Limerick City to teach Irish. In 1913 he joined the Irish Volunteers. In 1915 he married Máire Killeen, a teacher."
"Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with ""Germany calling, Germany calling"", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. The same nickname was also applied to some other broadcasters of English language propaganda from Germany, but it is Joyce with whom the name is now overwhelmingly identified. There are various theories about its origin. The English language propaganda radio programme ""Germany Calling"" was broadcast to audiences in the United Kingdom on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and"
"Joe McWilliams Joseph Elsberry ""Joe"" McWilliams (1904 – 1996) was an American right-wing political figure of the 1940s, and the principal defendant in the federal Smith Act sedition trial of 1944. McWilliams was born in 1904 to a poor pioneer family in Hitchcock, Oklahoma. In his earlier days McWilliams was well known for using an American-flag-draped covered Conestoga wagon for publicizing his rallies and speeches, as well as for drawing attention to his cause. Most of his early rallies were impromptu street presentations that at times ended violently, as one did on July 4, 1940 in New York City. A"
"and Tans. In later life, Elam reported that although she disliked Joyce, she believed that his execution by the British in 1946 was wrong, stating that he should not have been regarded as a traitor to England because he was not English, but Irish. In late August 1939, shortly before war was declared, Joyce and his wife Margaret fled to Germany. Joyce had been tipped off that the British authorities intended to detain him under Defence Regulation 18B. Joyce became a naturalised German citizen in 1940. In Berlin, Joyce could not find employment until a chance meeting with fellow Mosleyite"
"Wisconsin. He was married and had three children. He died of liver disease in a hospice in Germantown, Wisconsin on February 24, 2006. Michael S. Joyce Michael S. Joyce (July 5, 1942 – February 24, 2006) was an American conservative activist. Michael S. Joyce was born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 5, 1942. He grew up in a family of blue-collar Catholic Democrats. He attended Kent State University but transferred to Cleveland State University, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in history and philosophy in 1967. He received a Ph.D. in education from Walden University in 1974. His first"
"investigation, conducted shortly after Wodehouse's release from Germany, but published only after his death, found no evidence of treachery. Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with ""Germany calling, Germany calling"", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. The same nickname was also applied to some other broadcasters of English language propaganda from Germany, but it is Joyce with whom the name is now overwhelmingly identified. There are various theories about its origin. The English language propaganda radio"
"which the film version is entitled ""Meet the Robinsons"", and ""Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo."" All are under the label ""The World of William Joyce."" Rolie Polie Olie series: The Guardians of Childhood series: Novels: Picture books: William Joyce (writer) William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1957) is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker. His illustrations have appeared on numerous covers of ""The New Yorker"" and his paintings are displayed nationwide. For the short film ""The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"" (2011), Joyce won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the"
"James Joyce (congressman) James Joyce (July 2, 1870 – March 25, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Cumberland, Ohio, Joyce attended the common schools. He taught school in Cumberland and Pleasant City, Ohio, and also studied law. He entered the Cincinnati Law School in 1891 and was graduated in 1892. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, on March 3, 1892. Superintendent of the Senecaville (Ohio) High School 1893–1895. Began the active practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1895. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1896–1900. He served as delegate"
"Jonah Barrington to coin the term ""Haw-Haw"". The nickname possibly referenced Baillie-Stewart's exaggeratedly aristocratic way of speaking, though Wolf Mittler, another English-speaking announcer, is sometimes considered a more likely candidate. When William Joyce later became the most prominent Nazi propaganda broadcaster, Barrington appended the title and named Joyce ""Lord Haw-Haw"", since the true identity of the broadcaster was unknown at the time. Another nickname which was possibly applied to Baillie-Stewart was ""Sinister Sam"". By the end of September 1939 it was clear to the radio authorities that Joyce, originally Baillie-Stewart's backup man, was more effective. Baillie-Stewart, who had gradually become"
"the nickname, American pro-Nazi broadcaster Fred W. Kaltenbach was given the moniker ""Lord Hee-Haw"" by the British media. The ""Lord Hee-Haw"" name, however, was used for a time by ""The Daily Telegraph"" to refer to Lord Haw-Haw, generating some confusion between nicknames and broadcasters. A number of announcers could have been Lord Haw-Haw: William Joyce replaced Mittler in 1939. Joyce was American-born and raised in Ireland and as a teenager he was an informant to the British forces about the IRA members during the Irish War of Independence. He was also a senior member of the British Union of Fascists"
"Nazi broadcasts prominently reported on the shooting down of Allied aircraft and the sinking of Allied ships, presenting discouraging reports of high losses and casualties among Allied forces. Although listening to his broadcasts was highly discouraged, many Britons did indeed tune into them. In 1940, at the height of his influence, Joyce had an estimated 6 million regular and 18 million occasional listeners in Great Britain. At the end of the war, Joyce was captured by British forces at Flensburg, near the German border with Denmark. Spotting a dishevelled figure resting from gathering firewood, intelligence soldiers engaged him in conversation,"
"and followed this with another against Bayern Munich in a friendly a month later. Joyce played a total of 113 first-team matches for the Spurs, with his career ending following the outbreak of World War I. During the war, Joyce returned to Millwall and after the war, following a brief spell with Gillingham, became assistant trainer and was briefly caretaker manager when Bob Hunter became ill in the 1930s. John Joyce (footballer) John William Joyce (26 June 1877 – June 1956) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for various clubs between 1898 and 1920. Throughout his career,"
"Matthew William Joyce Matthew William Joyce is a filmmaker, magazine editor, activist for Women's Rights, Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Education and was born in Manly, Sydney Australia. He attended Wauchope High school excelling in athletics, music and drama and co-acted as the lead with Phil Jamieson in the school's 1994 production of ""Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat"". After High School Joyce attended the Young Actors Studio at the National Institute of Dramatic and then studied the Journey at the Actor's Centre Australia. In 2000, Joyce appeared as a bounty hunter in ""Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the"
"a war with Nazi Germany. Although Joyce had been deputy leader of the party from 1933 and an effective fighter and orator, Mosley snubbed him in his autobiography and later denounced him as a traitor because of his wartime activities. Unlike Joyce, the Elams did not escape detention under Defence Regulation 18B; both were arrested on the same day as Mosley in May 1940. The relationship between Joyce and Norah Elam was evidence of the strange bedfellows that politics can bring together. Elam's father had been an Irish nationalist, while Joyce had been a Unionist and supporter of the Black"