Dies Committee

noun

, U.S. History.

1. an early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dies Committee¹

Named after Martin Dies, its first chairman

Example Sentences

If the Senate adopts changes, the bill dies, committee co-chair Bert Stedman said.

From Seattle Times

Vexed by a Dies Committee charge that he had formerly worked as a committee member in promoting Technocracy,� U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the U. S. Communist Party's general secretary and No. 1 front man, crook-mouthed Earl Browder, so testified to the Dies Committee last September, he put himself in danger of a second Federal imprisonment.

From Time Magazine Archive

She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive