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House Un-American Activities Committee

(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.

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Chambers House HUAC			1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the USA, crime novelist Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Laughton and the McCarthy era In 1956, Laughton, a wartime friend of Berthold Brecht in whose Galileo he'd appeared, grovelled before the House Un-American Activities Committee after receiving an invitation to attend an East Berlin memorial following Brecht's death. Philip French's screen legends by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk They and their parents--who'd fled to California after having relocated to Switzerland at the beginning of the war--were hounded back to Europe after the war by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), whose members had branded the Manns as "premature anti-fascists. Sibling revelry by Stone, Martha E. / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide			Ummah Umnak Island ump umpie Umpirage umpire umpireship Umpqua Umpress umpteen umpteenth umptieth Umpty umquhile Umtali Umtata umteen umteenth UMTS UMW umwelt UN UN agency un- un-American Un-American activities un-Americanism un-British un-come-at-able un-English un-get-at-able Un-Mosaic Un-Romanized un... UNA Una boat una corda una voce unabashed unabashedly unabated unabbreviated Unability unable unable to unable to help Unabled Unableness unabridged unabridged dictionary Unabsorbable			Un secretariat UN Secretariat/Temp UN Secretariat/Temp Un security council UN Special Commission UN Systems Department for Development Support and Management Services UN Trusteeship UN Trusteeship Council Un Univers de Services UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN University UN Volunteers UN Volunteers (UNV) UN World Commission on Environment and Development UN World Environment Day UN World Food Programme UN World Health Organisation UN World Health Organisation UN World Health Organisation UN World Health Organisation UN World Health Organization UN World Health Organization UN World Health Organization UN World Health Organization UN World Heritage UN World Tourism Organization Unx un- un- un-American Un-American activities* un-Americanism Un-assimilated Un-Authorized Traversal Un-Biased Risk Estimator Un-birthday Un-Bounded Cycle un-British un-come-at-able Un-Controlled Accidental Release of Agent Into the Atmosphere Un-Correlated Multi-Path Interference UN-DDSMS UN-DMT Un-Ducted Fan un-English Un-enviromentally-friendly lighting Un-equal Packet Loss Un-equal Packet-loss Protection Un-Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Un-ethical Un-ethical Un-ethical Un-ethical Un-ethical UN-EUE Un-Filled Orders Un-Freakin'-Believable UN-GAID un-get-at-able

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House Un-American Activities Committee (redirected from Un-American activities)

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