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Postwar "witch hunt" gp
Answer for the clue "Postwar "witch hunt" gp ", 4 letters:
huac
Alternative clues for the word huac
- Anti-Red grp.
- 1950s Communist-bashing grp. in Congress
- WWII anti-subversive gp
- Old antisubversive group
- Former Congressional gp. concerned with Communist infiltration
- Grp. that interrogated Alger Hiss
- Cong. investigator of Alger Hiss
- Red Scare org
- Commie-busting org. of the 1950s
- McCarthy era investigative grp
Usage examples of huac.
After showing up to testify before HUAC with Dean Acheson at his side, Harvard-educated Currie fled to Colombia.
Now, at last, we would hear the other side in the battle of relatively equal evil forces: Soviet gulags and fascistic oppression by HUAC.
We’ve got the heavy artillery that I’ll mention in a minute and I’m working on getting a batch of Fed surveillance photos: UAES brain trusters hobnobbing with known Communist Party members and HUAC indictees at Sleepy Lagoon protest activities back in ‘43 and ‘44.
Mal got scared and went for big verbal ammo: Loftis didn’t know Chaz Minear ratted him to HUAC.
Minear speculated to Doc Lesnick that her old man’s political juice kept her from being subpoenaed by HUAC in ‘47--and not one other witness mentioned her name.