Word: cayugas
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...Brother Livingston, 69, who in his 15 years as president of Cornell University has enriched that old school spiritually and materially. To Brother Livingston, an M. D., Cornell owes its new $60,000,000 Manhattan Medical Centre, many a renowned scholar drawn to Cornell's campus by Lake Cayuga outside Ithaca, N. Y. This week Livingston became the second Farrand to retire...
Please give us the name and picture of the commander of the Cayuga. A man of his spunk deserves something better than complete anonymity...
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...
...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...