Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simple sample palindrome: Madam, I'm Adam...
Back in the '70s my mother was going through Missouri when the train stopped at a little town. A small, countrified looking woman got on and took the seat in front of her. The conductor, taking tickets, stopped at her seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother...
...little fight talk Franklin Roosevelt last week warmed up A. F. of L.'s and C. I. O.'s peace negotiators. The six-A. F. of L.'s Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...
...alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical, Australia's and California's Harry Bridges. Two days after Miss Perkins told a House committee what an honest, patriotic woman and public official she really is (see p. 10), Mr. Jackson told the Supreme Court that, in Madam Secretary Perkins' opinion, Alien Strecker is a lecherous, insidious, incendiary character who ought to be deported...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. found that there was nothing in the Labor Department's record against Joe to warrant deporting him. Judge Hutcheson spoke of "the tyranny of labels over certain types of minds" and twitted the prosecution (inferentially, Madam Secretary Perkins herself) for "a kind of Pecksniffian righteousness, savoring strongly of hypocrisy and party bigotry...