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HUAAC
(redirected from House Un-American Activities Committee)

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HUAACHouse Un-American Activities Committee (usually seen as HUAC)


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House of Representatives, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), began to investigate Communist influences in Hollywood.
Blacklisted! "Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?" That ... by Hanson-Harding, Alexandra / Junior Scholastic
nearly lost his career when [Jerome] Robbins gave up his name to HUAC," the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Historical record by Bentley, Eric / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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.
Kazan vs. Stalin's liars: for more than 50 years, the Hollywood Left ... by Jasper, William F. / The New American
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