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more help the worse. I feel sometimes like stopping everything and live in such a way that we do not need all that cumbersome and inefficient help. It is simply absurd to spend so much money yearly for so little comfort.
Wednesday. 9. Here in the morning. At 2 P.M. went to executive committee meeting of [[red underline]] Protal Co. [[/red underline]] Wiechman, Van Sinderen, Kent, Peters Williams, Benjamin and myself there. [[red underline]] Swan [[/underline]] has sent in report of conditions. Progress is very slow. Van Sinderen proposes notify stockholders of state of affairs and that [[red underline]] Protal is not used. [[/underline]] Wiechman and specially [[red underline]] Benjamin [[/red underline]] objects, but we answer them. Rather plain speaking. Peters got mad 
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says he is tired of the whole thing and wants to finish and will not allow to be interfered with by those who have not [[underline]] paid a cent. [[/underline]] + [[margin--meaning Wiechman and Benjamin]] The whole thing is very unpleasant seems like a sobering up after the wild visionary dreams of [[red underline]] Wiechmann [[/red underline]] and his [[red underline]] Protal. [[/red underline]] Rushed away to office of Bakelite Co. to sign some letters then to Engineers Club to meet Baskerville and Hesse, committee on Bye Laws and Constitution of [[red underline]] International Congress. [[/red underline]] Got thru our work at about 11 P.M. I feel very tired.
Nov. 10. A busy morning again. Had some stiff talk to [[red underline]] Thurlow [[/red underline]] when he arrived here again at 10:45 P.M. Told him [[red underline]] his times were over when [[/red underline]] 
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