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TO: Mr Seligmann

FROM: Mr Loeb    August 11, 1936

SUBJECT: General

1. World's Fair:: Since you were principally interested in the matter concerning the Worlds Fair and U S Steel, I shall go into these very briefly. There is very little new concerning the Worlds Fair and I don't believe very much will be done about it by Mr Chadbourne until early September when Mr Voorhees is back on the job. Mr Chadbourne has been very busy cavorting around the wheat fields of Kansas with a Mr Landon, whom you may have heard spoken of as our next president. Try not to let your Republican minded friends mislead you on this. Nevertheless, Mr Landon's gain is our loss and until Mr Chadbourne has enough of the parched wheat fields of Kansas I doubt whether he can be interested in the mud flats of Flushing.

2. Concerning U S Steel, I might use the phrase that has been used by every committee since the Apostles met around the table, namely, to report progress. If the progress is imperceptible to you from this short reckoning, it is even more imperceptible to us over here. The latest stumbling block to an early conclusion of this deal seems to be that there has been a change made in presidents of Universal Atlas Cement Company. The new man will not assume his duties until August 20th, and neither the officials at Universal or at U S Steel wish to saddle him with a commitment which has not already been made. The matter has already been taken up with the present officials in Chicago and with the chief of sales at U S Steel and seems to have met with their approval. It must now wait until the new president comes into office, at which time Mr Starke assures me that we will get our answer. So far as he is concerned he still seems to be eager to put the deal across and does not seem to be disturbed by the terms which, with the help of Mr Robbins, we offered him.

3. We are going ahead with the Fine Arts Advertising Show and Bob Levy has promised to help on it when he gets back the first of next month, and I presume that whatever details concern Seligmann & Company you have left in his hands.

4. Just this week we have had two interesting orders for designs, one from a bird cage manufacturing company asking us to do 12 designs for them for which they will