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chat anecdotes etc. I saw him pay over 300 mks! for that dinner. Back in the hotel with [[underline]] Jaeger [[/underline]] at 1 P.M. 

Feb 26. Up early and to office there met [[underline]] Traun [[/underline]] of Traun Sohne etc. in conference Made me the impression of a [[underline]] conceited jackass. [[/underline]] The conceited son of a probably intelligent father who has built up the business for him.
Seemed cock-sure about everything and said knew everything and proved at the same time by his statements that he knew little and what he knew was erroneous. I see very little use of doing anything with 
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him except lick him into submission. The attitude of the man was very different from that of a reasonable businessmen. [[underline]] Ephraim [[/underline]] gave our record in patent of bases to his patent attorney Dr. Petersen. Later on got a letter from him (on afternoon telling his interview had not changed his opinion; just what I expected
Went to lunch at Imperial [[underline]] Automobile Club (a fine [[/underline]] club room donated by baron Bluchröder), with Dr. [[underline]] Saberski [[/underline]] met there Professor Kobner (University Berlin) and Dr. Arnold Berliner editor of a new publication "Die