Dies Committee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Dies Committee
Named after Martin Dies, its first chairman
Example Sentences
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But the Dies Committee had charged him with subversiveness and Communist sympathies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ambassador Davies returns from the U.S.S.R., makes a series of shouting stump speeches that should bring on an immediate Dies Committee investigation of Warner Bros.
From Time Magazine Archive
She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington.
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
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 John L. Spivak
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