Word: anathemas
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There was a time when "taxation without representation" was anathema to Americans by and large and to noisy Harvard undergraduates in particular. Americans got the representation and have seen paying taxes ever since. Harvard undergraduates did not get representation until the Student Council was formed thirty years ago; and they are already beginning to welsh...
When three years later all was over-when Insulland came a cropper to the tune of $750,000,000, most of it lost by smalltime investors-the U. S. was ready to elect a New Deal, to whom Samuel Insull and his ill-reputed holding companies were anathema. Even though Insull was eventually acquitted of using the mails to defraud, of embezzlement and of violating the Bankruptcy Act, the emotion generated by the Insull crash made it possible for Franklin Roosevelt to secure from Congress a "death sentence" for utility holding companies...
...French labor laws enacted two years ago by Socialist Léon Blum's Popular Front Government was a rigid 40-hour working week. To millions of French workers this meant less work, a general five-day week. To the French employer the law was anathema. To hundreds of thousands of tourists the law meant that banks would be closed all day Saturdays, that big Paris stores would not open Mondays...
...American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin, but their societies were not officially represented in Milwaukee...
...alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon a pedestal a man whose name is anathema to all real American citizens...