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'50s anti-subversive grp
Answer for the clue "'50s anti-subversive grp ", 4 letters:
huac
Alternative clues for the word huac
- Cong. investigator of Alger Hiss
- Org. that interrogated the Hollywood Ten
- Old Red Scare grp
- Cold War gp. that had witnesses naming names
- Accusatory gp. during the McCarthy era
- 1950s Communist-bashing grp. in Congress
- Grp. whose hearings led to Hollywood blacklisting
- Grp. depicted in "Trumbo"
- Internal Security Act sponsor: Abbr.
- Blacklist-era Cong. committee
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.