HUAC

[hyoo-ak]

noun

1. House Un-American Activities Committee.

Example Sentences

After moving with her family to Europe in 1949 to avoid being subpoenaed by HUAC, which had launched an investigation into suspected Communist infiltration of Hollywood two years earlier, she said she became a retiring housewife.

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The museum’s summer Outdoor Movies at the Skirball series, held in its courtyard, will this year feature movies by blacklisted filmmakers and others who testified before HUAC.

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The product of eight years of research, including interviews with more than 150 people, the book documented the activities of alleged Hollywood radicals as well as their investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, which jailed 10 screenwriters, directors and producers for refusing to testify in 1947 about purported Communist ties.

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“She said, ‘I will not be part of this,’ ” said Karen Chilton, who wrote the book “Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, From Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC.”

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In 1957, the Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision scaled back the HUAC’s powers by overturning the conviction of labor organizer John Watkins for refusing to name Communists in the labor movement.

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