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42 Jan 7. At home. Getting thru belated mail Jan 8. Yesterday talked with [[red underline]] Gothelf [[/red underline]] about his renewal of contract We agreed for contract from Nov 15, 1917 to Jan 1, 1919. [[red underline]] 2200 regular salary and minimum bonus 500. yearly [[/red underline]] Jan 9. Mtg [[red underline]] Board directors [[/red underline]] early at 10:30 A.M. postponed since last week. [[red underline]] Yearly sales [[/red underline]] about [[red underline]] $1,250,000. [[/red underline]] Went to Bank to get my eleven [[red underline]] Liberty Bonds of $1000. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and five [[/strikethrough]] held as collateral for loan of $10,000 which I repaid and $5000. Farm Loan Bonds of which they have exchanged the first certificates. Then drove home with Celine. [[vertical annotation in left margin]] At 1 P.M. met J. A. Knops at Chemists Club a belgian who wants a position. [[/vertical annotation]] Jan 10 At home. - Jan 11 Visit to Columbia University Jan 12. Drove to NY with Celine Lieutenant [[red underline]] Paternot [[/red underline]] came [[end page]] [[start page]] 43 [[symbol "#" in top left margin]] for [[red underline]] letters or packages to take along for George. [[/red underline]] Took him and Nina and Clairette to Plaza for lunch Went to Bank then long interview with [[red underline]] Knowlton about Hooker complicated and vast projects which I consider dangerous and [[/red underline]] inopportune at present. No time to make such complicated and ramifying projects when the bottom is shifting everyday. [[left margin]] # 2hs [[/left margin]] [[red underline]] Better stick to your job and do what you are best qualified for. [[/red underline]] We do not know [[strikethrough]] what shift [[/strikethrough]] how economical and [[red underline]] political situation will shift [[/red underline]] Long [[strikethrough]] earnest [[/strikethrough]] conference in my room at University Club. [[red underline]] Knowlton seems to endorse my views. [[/red underline]] I feel very very tired and exhausted. Afterwards went to annual meeting of [[red underline]] Century Club, [[/red underline]] met many friends there. [[red underline]] Root is elected president. [[/red underline]] Everybody [[vertical annotation in left margin]] At evening the Duke de Guiche of the Aviation corps of France came to see me at University Club. [[/vertical annotation]]
