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...alleged subversives. (Most cases were thrown out.) With the onset of the Cold War, fears flared anew. Indeed, the term socialized medicine was coined in the late 1940s by critics of President Harry Truman's national health-care plan. From 1945 to 1960, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)--which was founded in 1938 to hunt down suspected Nazi sympathizers--interrogated more than 3,000 people. And in 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy launched his infamous witch hunts for communists in the Federal Government. When no evidence backing his charges emerged, the Senate censured...
...role is an important one as a Kazan movie is inevitably seen in light of his decision to name names to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the organ for official McCarthyism, particularly as Budd Schulberg, Kazan’s screenwriter on this picture and “On the Waterfront” also acted as a “friendly witness” against alleged Communists. The Matthau character shows the self-hatred at an inability to create a viable third...
Indeed, by the spring of 1953, McCarthy’s movement turned its focus toward Cambridge after Robert G. Davies ’29 gave testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Davies, who had taught at Harvard in the 1930s, said that he and 15 other faculty members had been a part of a communist cell...
Furry appeared before the HUAC in February and April and stated that he was not currently a member of the Communist Party. But, when questioned about his activities before 1951, he pled the Fifth Amendment—remaining silent rather than disclosing his affiliation with the Party while he worked as an MIT research associate during World...
With few exceptions, though, the students were applauded for "expressing their views publicly." A spokesmen for HUAC said that Committee is watching the Project "with a great deal of interest...