Word: affronts
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...people can witness these blood curdling photos by Norman Alley without realizing immediately that the yellow scourge of the Japanese must be wiped off the earth. As commentator Graham McNamee so succinctly puts it, it was a savage affront to American prestige and to rights fully protected by international law and definite treaties. And so on and so on far, far into the night...
Vainly Witter Bynner pleaded with the gravediggers to bury his mother's body. At length, he and his friends deposited the casket on a shelf and Poet Bynner rushed to a telegraph office to appeal to President Roosevelt to do something about ''this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...
...When the five-man SECommission was created in 1934 for the sole purpose of reforming Wall Street, worried speculators were mollified when one of their number-Joseph Patrick Kennedy-was made Chairman. A practical Irishman who was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy had no desire to affront Wall Street, but saw clearly that financial excesses must be curbed. Policeman Kennedy generally used the technique of catching his flies with honey. By the end of a year the job was largely organized. Virtually all listed securities had been registered, a simplified registration form for new security issues...
...President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
Chuckling-diplomats wondered whether he too would be summoned to Teheran for an explanation of this affront to the dignity of Iran...