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House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938-75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies , set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. The committee's methods included press... Read more
Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley 1916-, American critic, editor, and translator, b. Bolton, England, grad. Oxford, 1938, Ph.D. Yale, 1941. A highly regarded and rigorously intellectual critic, particularly of the drama, Bentley is the author of such works as A Century of Hero-Worship (1944), The Playwright as Think... Read more
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman 1905-84, American dramatist, b. New Orleans. Her plays, although often melodramatic, are marked by intelligence and craftsmanship. The Children's Hour (1934), her first drama, concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers.... Read more
Granville Hicks
Granville Hicks 1901-82, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. A member of the Communist party, he edited The New Masses and wrote a pioneering Marxist interpretation of American literature, The Great Tradition (1933). In 1939 he resigned from the party and in the 1950s was a cooperative witness bef... Read more
Howard Fast
Howard Fast 1914-2003, American author, b. New York City. A prolific writer, he is best known for historical novels that mainly concern rebellion against various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and ... Read more
Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler , 1898-1962, German composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg . In 1926, he joined the German Communist party, thereafter producing protest songs and other music expressive of left-wing ideals, and began a collaboration with Bertolt Brecht . He fled Naziism for the United States in 1933, s... Read more
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan , 1909-2003, American stage and film director, producer, writer, actor, b. Turkey, as Elia Kazanjoglous. Immigrating with his Greek family to the United States in 1913, Kazan studied at Williams College and the Yale Drama School before beginning his acting career with the New York Group T... Read more
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers 1901-61, U.S. journalist and spy, b. Philadelphia. He joined the U.S. Communist party in 1925 and wrote for its newspaper before engaging (1935-38) in espionage for the USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began working for Time magazine. In 1948 he testified before the House Co... Read more
Communist party
Communist party in the United States, political party that espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism . Origins The first Communist parties in the United States were founded in 1919 by dissident factions of the Socialist party. The larger, which called itself the Communist par... Read more
Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon 1913-94, 37th President of the United States (1969-74), b. Yorba Linda, Calif. Political Career to 1968 A graduate of Whittier College and Duke Univ. law school, he practiced law in Whittier, Calif., from 1937 to 1942, was briefly with the Office of Emergency Managem... Read more

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Un-American Activities Committee, House
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Un-American Activities Committee, House ( HUAC ) Committee of the US House of Representatives, established (1938) to investigate political subversion. Created to combat Nazi propaganda, it began by investigating... Read more
House Un-American Activities Committee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (HUAC), a committee (1938-75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created...anti-Communist investigations. The committee's methods included pressure...The committee (renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969) was abolished in... Read more
Martin Dies, Jr.
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1931-45; 1951...Congress to create what became the House Un-American Activities Committee and was its first chairman. The committee was notorious for its exposés of... Read more
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...x2013;74). He was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives in 1946, and the Senate in 1950. Nixon came to prominence as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee . He was vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower... Read more
Dalton Trumbo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...group he would have preferred never existed-the "Hollywood Ten." After refusing to cooperate during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in the late 1940s, Trumbo and nine other screenwriters and directors were sent to jail and... Read more
Granville Hicks
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Tradition (1933). In 1939 he resigned from the party and in the 1950s was a cooperative witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In addition to several novels he wrote John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary (1968) and Literary... Read more
Whittaker Chambers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began working for Time magazine. In 1948 he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, accusing Alger Hiss , president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former State... Read more
Hiss, Alger
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). But a...relentless probe by the committee's lead investigator...1940s, the U.S. House of Representatives...triggered by the committee's threat of legal...He offered the committee microfilm of ... Read more
Richard Milhous Nixon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Republican. In the House of Representatives...his work on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where he was credited...and in 1974 the House of Representatives...proceedings. The House Committee on the Judiciary... Read more
Hanns Eisler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...variety of films, and became musical assistant to Charlie Chaplin (1942-47). Called before the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 and castigated as a Communist, he left the United States in 1948, living first in Vienna and... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "House Un-American Activities Committee"

House Committee on Un-American Activities
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) searched...Career of the House Committee on Un-American ... Read more
The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (24 October 1947)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...DISNEY BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES (24 October 1947...Martin Dies, Jr., the House Un-American Activities Committee was established in...Blacklisting ; Cold War ; House Committee on Un-American ... Read more
Un-American Activities Committee, House
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Un-American Activities Committee, House a committee of the US House of Representatives ( HUAC ) established in 1938 to investigate subversives. It became notorious for its zealous investigations... Read more
Investigating Committees
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...by a House committee. In 1859...example, the House Banking and Currency Committee, chaired...trust." Pujo Committee findings...the Special Committee to Investigate...the Special House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities. The ... Read more
HUAC
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations HUAC (ˈhjuːæk) House (of Representatives) Un-American Activities Committee Read more
Wilson, Michael
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and blacklisted: for several later...After being identified by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as "a Communist, past or present," Michael... Read more
Alger Hiss Trials
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...In 1948 he became the focus of an anti-Communist investigation under the direction of the Committee on Un-American Activities set up by the US House of Representatives. Hiss was originally suspected of having passed secret information to the... Read more
Hiss Case
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...congressman and member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). The Hiss case...controversy. The Nixon White House tapes revealed the president...O'Reilly See also Cold War ; House Committee on Un-American Activities ; McCarthyism . Read more
Rossen,Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...feature, Johnny O'Clock , 1947; subpoenaed by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), hearing suspended after arrest of...x2014; Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives , 1953 Volume, Washington... Read more
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...career in the U.S. House of Representatives...a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the investigation...prolonged hearings, the House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment...certainty that the House would impeach... Read more

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Exit Robert Taylor. (controversy over actor's testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947) (column)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/5/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...cooperative witness when testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and had committed that grave sin in...Ayn Rand testified before the investigating committee that the film was very simply Communist propaganda... Read more
The way they are. (House Un-American Activities hearings of 1951 in film; new liberal Hollywood)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/15/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...being fought in the U.S. A committee of Congress sought to control...The Front (1976) and The House on Carroll Street (1988...first film that uses the Committee hearings as emblematic of...Victor Navasky wrote that the Committee went after Party members...having to appear before the ... Read more
The pro-American activities committee. (Iran-Contra arms sales)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/3/1987; 465 words ; The Pro-American Activities Committee IN THE BAD old days, such congressional committeesas the House Committee on Un-American Activities conducted investigations on Communist subversion, plotting, and espionage. The current Iran-Contra hearings... Read more
On the defensive: Walter Reuther's testimony before the McClellan labor rackets committee.
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or...as the McClellan Committee, pursued the most...authorized the select committee to examine the...behind the select committee's formation. During...create a new Senate committee charged with examining...The new special ... Read more
Art house. (News bites).(documentary "Salt of the Earth" released 50 years ago)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 3/1/2003; 51 words ; * Art House. It's been 50 years since the release of Salt of the Earth, a movie chronicling the 1950 strike...spent six months in prison as one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to give testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Read more
The house of Chambers ... and the assault of the local bureaucrats.(PEOPLE & PLACES)(Whittaker Chambers )(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/27/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...was so charmed by a modest house on one of the lots that he...testifying against Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Hiss-Chambers case--which...the kitchen of the little house at Medfield, our second farm... Read more
Is Hate Crimes Bill Needed?(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 3/5/2001; 266 words ; ...Houses Judiciary committee, would allow penalties...back before the House committee later this session...sounds wrong and un-American to us, just as wrong and un-American it is to hate...victim also seems un-American. To remain a free... Read more
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist.
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 1/1/1995; ; 468 words ; Before McCarthyism earned its permanent place in the political lexicon, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was traversing the U.S., holding hearings to uncover communist conspiracies. In 1947, the committee, chaired by J. Parnell Thomas and including a young Congressman ... Read more
Guilty by Suspicion.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/15/1991; ; 700+ words ; THE EXERTIONS of the House Un-American Activities Committee-HUAC-constitute of the more deplorable chapters in American history. One does not have to endorse Communism in order to recognize... Read more
Indecent exposure.(Good Night, and Good Luck)(Movie Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/15/2005; ; 651 words ; WHENEVER Hollywood has tackled the subject of Joseph McCarthy and the work of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the results have tended to be fatuous if not downright embarrassing. George Clooney breaks through the barrier in Good Night... Read more