Word: cayugas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spunk. It looked like war last week between President Roosevelt's Coast Guard cutter Cayusa (which Ambassador Bowers used as a "Floating Embassy" before he went to Hendaye in France) and Generalissimo Franco's cruiser Almirante Cervera. As the Cayuga was taking refugees aboard at San Sebastian, the cruiser radioed: "We will open fire on you if you allow Government adherents to escape among the refugees...
...Thank you!" tartly radioed back the Cayuga. When the Almirante Cervera's eight 6-in. guns moved as though taking aim, the cutter unlimbered her one 5-in. gun, her two six-pounders. After this bit of spunk from the minute Cayuga, the stately Almirante Cervera without further interchange steamed out into the Gulf of Gascony and over the horizon...
...battleship Oklahoma. Suddenly telephones jangled in the captain's cabin. Washington was calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise were to be transferred to other warships. The ship and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga were to proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared out the crews' recreation room for an emergency nursery. Plowing down the Bay of Biscay watch...
...between him and San Sebastian. This week, with his wife and daughter, he scuttled up the coast by car through barricaded San Sebastian, across the border into France. There from St. Jean de Luz, he announced that he would set up a ''floating embassy" on the cutter Cayuga, had ''no intention of abandoning my Spanish post for the present...
Harvard's Varsity crew finished its unbroken sprint record this spring with another loss Saturday, to Cornell on Lake Cayuga. Both the Varsity and Jayvees lost over the two miles, the Big Red taking the first shell by three lengths in 10:38.3. Syracuse trailed the Harvard first and second boats by two and five lengths respectively...