HUAC
Americannoun
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With accessible prose and astute academic insight, Doherty shows us that both the studios and the Hollywood Ten were victims of HUAC.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018
However, now that he was dancing in the world of finance, he wore a necktie, sort of like having worn the appropriate revolutionary costume for HUAC.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2017
HUAC, he insisted, didn’t exist by the early 1960s and, anyway, no women’s group played such a role in HUAC’s downfall.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
When later called to testify before HUAC, Bohm pleaded the Fifth Amendment rather than name names.
From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012
An excerpt of Elizabeth Bentley's testimony before HUAC, in which she answers questions about Nathan Silvermaster, her main contact in Washington, DC, from Congressman John E. Rankin of Mississippi.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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