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rapping gavel on table and....on his belly. In his excitement tries to obstruct calls me to order unnecessarily etc. [[?]] to see this is clearly the [[red underline]] old Schweitzer gang [[/red underline]] because [[red underline]] Greff [[/red underline]] gets up and says proxies in a club are illegal. I read him paragraph of Corporation, act of the State of New York which says: "any member of a corporation entitled to vote may do so by proxy except for ecclesiastical orders:"
Applause and long continued laughter. He shouts: "Are we
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an ecclesiastical order? ( More laughter"
Moore then says: "But we are no corporation." More laughter.
At this moment I see [[red underline]] Loeb [[/red underline]] who comes to me and says he feels he ought to withdraw. I forbid him to do so. Then he gets up and in [[strikethrough]] [[a?]] [[/strikethrough]] very modest and unimposing words says he feels sorry to be cause of all this trouble and asks as a favor to him that proxies should not be counted and makes a motion to that effect which was duly resolved and acted upon.
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