Dies Committee

American  

noun

U.S. History.

1. an early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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Etymology

Origin of Dies Committee

Named after Martin Dies, its first chairman

Example Sentences

But six months later, like a falling angel, he suddenly appeared before the Dies Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year he was called before the Dies Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Will Rogers Jr., back from the war and not so sure that he wants his House seat again, thought of trying to unseat State Senator Jack Tenney, head of California's "Little 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

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.