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He told me also that Schweitzer who a year ago told him he was [[strikethrough]] going [[strikethrough]] to be proposed for President of the Society of Chemical Industry was doing now underhand work to defeat such a nomination by simply telling
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that Wiley declines the honor.  W. says he does not decline the honor and never made any such statement.
[[margin]] March 9. [[/margin]]  Met Townsend at his office went[[strikethrough]] again [[strikethrough]] over some patent matters with him then took train back to New York.  In the evening listened at Cafe Boulevard to discussion about copyright law.  Victor Herbert being main speaker.
Coming home at night I found
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that Thurlow has not been successful with his experiments in Bakalite 
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grinding wheels in Worcester.
[[margin]]March 10.[[/margin]]  Busy in laboratory all day.
[[margin]]March 11.[[/margin]]  Busy laboratory in morning.  Afternoon lunch at D.&F. Co. office  appointment with Mr. Clancy and electrical engineer.  Western mining people wanted to buy Townsend cells for their chlorination process.  Then interview with Mr. Zabriskie [[margin]] [[symbol: =]] [[/margin]] of law firm and in conference until 7 P.M. regarding criminal lawsuit entered against D.F. Co. [[margin]] 1X [[/margin]]at  Niagara Falls (charge one day
[[margin]] March 12 [[/margin]]  Worked all morning in laboratory preparing samples for foreign patents.  Thurlow is in Boonton making [[underlined]] my molding tests with powdered A and B. [[/underlined]]
[[written vertically in margin]] Powdered molding making]]
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