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House Un-American Activities Committee n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the former name of the Internal Security Committee of the US House of Representatives: notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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House of Representatives, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), began to investigate Communist influences in Hollywood. nearly lost his career when [Jerome] Robbins gave up his name to HUAC," the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thanks, however, to comrades in the press who seized this ploy and began to attack the committee, the Communists succeeded in pulling off a magnificent dialectical triumph: the HCUA became known popularly as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), indicating that it was the committee, rather than those it was investigating, that was un-American. |
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