Dies Committee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Dies Committee
Named after Martin Dies, its first chairman
Example Sentences
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In August 1939 the Dies Committee heard about him, sent him a subpoena.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most familiar tune was that of the Dies Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vexed by a Dies Committee charge that he had formerly worked as a committee member in promoting Technocracy,� U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
As evidence that the Dies Committee was unworthy of further existence, he produced a batch of letters which he entered in the Congressional Record.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides this very strange procedure by a Committee empowered by the Congress to investigate subversive activities, the Dies Committee withheld for months documentary evidence of Nazi activities in this country directed from Germany.
From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.
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