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our hands, or give Henry the 545 he has now and keep the 534's rotting in our stock. And should it be GE 724's to get rid of the material optimistically ordered in 1935 or 1936 for 40 more of them, or the GE 287. Electrical auxiliaries or mechanical. Split pole or stalling? And then it was a session with George Le Baron to beat down a 19 week promise on duplicate 1000 HP units to 17 weeks, and the 19 already was chiseled too fine according to George.

And sandwiched in was [[Maukle?]] in Cleveland wanting to know where the 3rd Republic stock locomotive was – presumably en route to Erie. And Felix wanting to know about A.I.E.E. And on and on. Aydelott's criticism of my braking paper.

Felix is lining up the meeting next Thursday with William Stout as speaker. We arranged to get Stout but we are having the ASME also. Felix didn't want Charlie Oergel, Chairman of the ASME at the dinner for Stout – wanted someone like Nick – more prominent – "Ed" Nick, as Felix would say. I really think Felix is a snob and yet I like him. Charlie Reed tells me that the Konns are being eased out of the socially prominent set the made such a play for and since the Konns burned their bridges behind them with the G.E. crowd, they are well nigh ostracized per Charlie's version of the information. Felix is a funny duck that way. Charlie also had a story that Felix is changing his last name to Felix – so it would be Felix Felix instead of Felix Konn. Felix, trying to crash Erie society is like Hitler trying to conquer the world – a tough job.