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Dies Committee

American  

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of Dies Committee

Named after Martin Dies, its first chairman

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Last year he was called before the Dies Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn 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."

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As evidence that the Dies Committee was unworthy of further existence, he produced a batch of letters which he entered in the Congressional Record.

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He needed a minimum of seven hundred dollars for his wife and himself to cross third class, but the Dies Committee was not interested in where the money for the trip had come from.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.

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