What does HUAAC stand for?

1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the U.

1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the USA, crime novelist Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Ten years later, Josephson's brother refuses to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, columnist Westbrook Pegler crusades against Barney, and the clubs close by 1950.

They and their parents--who'd fled to California after having relocated to Switzerland at the beginning of the war--were hounded back to Europe after the war by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), whose members had branded the Manns as "premature anti-fascists.

In 1948, former Communist Whittaker Chambers, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist cell, a charge Hiss denied.

1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the USA, novelist Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

From the wry, farcical baseball humor in "The Great American Novel" that builds up to the intercession of the House Un-American Activities Committee, to the cruel marital tragedy and treachery of "My Life as a Man", to the intriguing story of a smart and adventurous man pushing the bounds of erotic possibility in "The Professor of Desire", each classic work explores a different facet of the subtext constantly running beneath the human condition.

House of Representatives, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), began to investigate Communist influences in Hollywood.