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[[red underline]] Frank Sprague, Hunt [[/red underline]] present. took them all for lunch to Chemists Club and after lunch interrogated further [[red underline]] Reese and Landis [[/red underline]] on [[strikethrough]] thei [[/strikethrough]] subject of [[red underline]] HNO3 [[/red underline]] and explosives.
Evening made a [[red underline]] speech [[/red underline]] as guests of chemical alumni of [[red underline]] Pratt Institute.- Subject Naval Board and Chemistry in preparedness. Pratt vice- [[/red underline]] president of Standard Oil Co, my neighbor, looks like a rather mediocre man  Certain Congressman MacLeary, a republican made a fluent speech, all speeches referred that [[red underline]] Congress should not interfere with big business -- all with an object! and have good [[/red underline]] big business [[war?]] etc.
Slept at Chemists Club.
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March 1. 1916 Early downtown. Meeting board of directors. Hasslacher absent. Sales for Februari about [[red underline]] $53000.[[/red underline]] - More bickerings with Stevenson Brothers; otherwise everything is going smoothly.
Went to bank to buy draft of $500 to send to Minister [[red underline]] Henry van Dyke [[/red underline]] at the Hague so as to transmit it to [[red underline]] my sister [[/red underline]] in Ghent (see letter to consul Johnson) 
Had [[red underline]] Professor Dennis [[/red underline]] of Cornell for lunch at University Club. Gave him advice for reconstruction of their chemical laboratory just destroyed by fire and also [[red underline]] advice how to shake a good fat endorsement out of some rich manufacturers who were making shameful amounts of money. [[/red underline]] 

March 2. Here all day dictating letters etc.

March 3. Left here about 10:30 to