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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

Example Sentences

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Crowed a California C.I.O. newspaper: "The Dies Committee scoreboard today read: 3 down, 5 to go."

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

I called upon the second of the three suspected spies subpoenaed by the Dies Committee.

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

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