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I get to the point where, too perplexed to know what to do, I just grit my teeth and fight on through it doing anything to make things at all bearable. I suppose this is a very common problem and we are far from exceptions but oh, it [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] certainly a problem, a damned tough one. It is too much for me to work out - I've tried for eleven years now and it seems no nearer solution.

To get to something less upsetting, we got a new stenographer today, Miss Lang, a husky, pretty blond who shows promise of really developing into a good one. They wouldn't let Martha come back - she's staying with Brandy away from temptation's way.

Had a session with Cash, Walter Harris and Bob Walsh this morning on New Haven development. Maurice being uninvited. We talked it over and I think brought out some good points. Cash asked Bob & me to write a [[underlined]] joint [[/underlined]] memorandum on the history of the job, a fact record. Cash is Cagey in asking it to be [[underlined]] joint [[/underlined]] - we both sign it. Maurice was disgusted. I told him the idea was to find ways of avoiding such excess expenditures in the future. His reply: "I'll tell you and briefly. Fire the whole god damn engineering department down there!" One fact that struck me strongly again today is the great wisdom of "speaking ill of no man, speaking the best of every man." I had taken a minor crack at Woodward's gang in a letter I had written to Cash about this and I regretted it this morning. I put it in more to appease Maurice than anything else. [[underlined]] Follow this rule. [[/underlined]] It will pay big dividends in friends and avoidance of embarrassment many, many times.