Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday, President Laredo Bru gave his decision: Cuba did not want the St. Louis' Jews. The St. Louis had to leave promptly, or it would be towed out of the harbor by a gunboat. Her captain announced the ship would sail for Germany by way of Lisbon at 10 a. m. next morning. And as he had said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly...
...Western Hemisphere, off ports in the Mediterranean, the St. Louis drama was repeated. At Veracruz 327 refugees from Loyalist Spain were landed from the Flandre, 104 German Jews turned back. On the Taurus at Veracruz an exiled Jewish chemist, learning that he could not land, took poison, told the captain he would be dead in two minutes, died. In Buenos Aires, 200 Jewish refugees on the Caporte, the Monte Olivia, the Mendoza, were sent back to Germany...
Yale has decided on the three tennis players who, along with Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey of Harvard, will go abroad this summer to compete in the tournament with the Oxford-Cambridge team. Captain Gordy Campbell of the Elis rated one of the three Yale places immediately, but a round robin tournament had to be held to determine the remaining two places...
Junior Larry Kileger has been selected to captain the 1940 Eli net forces. Kileger was the No. 4 man on this year's Blue team and narrowly missed winning a place on the Oxfored-Cambridge traveling squad...
...noted contemporary poet as well as a journalist, MacLeish graduated from Yale in 1915, and from the Harvard Law School in 1919 after two years as an army captain during the World War. He came to Harvard last fall to coordinate the work of the Nieman Fellows in journalism...