Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sign Over Alabama...
Seven hours later, in the night sky over Alabama, Joe Connolly experienced some-thing an earlier age would have called a miraculous sign of approval for his good works and words...
SEMMES OF THE ALABAMA-W. Adolphe Roberts-Bobbs-Merrill...
Most effective Confederate raider was Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, who captured 86 vessels, burned 62 of them. In Semmes of the Alabama, Author Roberts, a devoted, "unreconstructed" Southerner, tries hard to make Semmes a heroic figure. But Semmes's exploits, unlike those of most Confederate leaders, seem almost as shabby now as they did to Unionists of 1864. The fast, heavily armed Alabama merely overhauled unarmed sailing vessels, stripped and burned them. Semmes fought only two battles, sank the Hatteras and was soundly whipped by the Kearsarge. Giving none of the background of British and American maritime rivalry...
Both Stanford and Alabama thrive in an atmosphere far removed from mayors and city councils. Besides being autonomous units, they have their own fire and police forces, and are not in the least worried by garbage troubles. Then own men cart it away...