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will it go next year to Trask?  Then this will represent the Standard Oil Trust end of it!
When I came home it was snowing briskly.
[[strikethrough]] [[margin]] Dec 18 [[/margin]] Snow sleet and rain. [[/strikethrough]].
Schweitzer before the meeting boasted openly about the fact that he alone, he did not say how, has [[?]] legislation which would have cost the German manufacturers 100 million marks.  I  suppose he referred to alterations in the patent law [[strikethrough]] compelling [[/strikethrough]] requiring compulsory operation of patents
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[[margin]] Clifford Richardson afterwards told me that he listened to every word of Schweitzer's talk & boasting [[/margin]]
similar to english, french and german practice.  I  do not remember anymore who was around.  I believe it was either Townsend or Racher or Coblenz or Toch. It was Clifford Richardson who reminded me of it afterwards.
[[margin]] Dec 18. [[/margin]] Slush, rain & sleet.  Spent most of day dictating letters and adjusting my analytical balance
[[margin]] Dec 19. [[/margin]] Usual routine work {meeting Anvil Club See 54
[[margin]] Dec 20. [[/margin]] Beautiful crisp cold weather.  Snow.  Motored with Lewis to Greenwich Conference at E. H. Hooker's house.  Good roads car went very well.  Beautiful sight of snowy country.  At Hooker's were his brothers
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