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56 faith in [[red underline]] Dyer Smith, [[/red underline]] wants them to stop interference proceedings to show their good will. Told him I see less a question of our rights or equity in it than a matter of [[red underline]] compromise [[/red underline]] specially as I do not feel that subject is [[red underline]] worth while [[/red underline]] riding on our high horse etc. March 19. This morning met [[red underline]] Alsberg [[red underline]] at Breakfeast and explained to him my views on [[red underline]] Soy Bean. [[/red underline]] He tells me his men at Bureau of Chemistry are investigating [[red underline]] Soy Bean and Soy Bean Bread - [[/red underline]] Explained to him my idea of mixing Soy Bean flower or Soy Bean meal with [[red underline]] flower of Kaffir Corn. [[/red underline]] He tells me Kaffir Corn [[red underline]] does not make a good dough [[/red underline]] I [[strikethrough]] told [[/strikethrough]] answered that it [[end page]] [[start page]] 57 [[symbol in top left margin]] # [[/symbol]] requires a [[red underline]] chemist and a culinary artist to show how good bread could be made [[/red underline]] by uniting these two materials and then produce a new universal food. [[symbol and annotation in left margin]] # 2 hs. [[/symbol and annotation]] After talking to him he [[red underline]] became enthusiastic about the idea [[/red underline]] and I invited him and [[red underline]] Herbert Quick [[/red underline]] to meet me and [[red underline]] Knowlton [[/red underline]] for dinner Thursday evening. At noon time Commissioner of Patents and [[red underline]] Dr. Fisher of Bureau of Standards [[/red underline]] came to invite me to be their guest and speaker at next meeting of [[red underline]] Economics Club which I accepted. [[/red underline]] March 20. This morning meeting with [[red underline]] Dr. Hale [[/red underline]] to discuss situation of Committee of Nitrate Supply. He tells me [[strikethrough]] Bu [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Secretary Baker [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] Secreat [[/strikethrough]] Secretary [[red underline]] Lane [[/red underline]] have been traveling
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Carl L. Alsberg was chief of the Bureau of Chemistry from 1912 to 1921.