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setting the whole program. [[underlined in red]] Thayer [[/underlined in red]] tells me [[underlined in red]] Ryan [[/underlined in red]] will bring order in this and will not stand nonsense. [[underlined in red]] Saunders tells me that Borglum hates Deeds [[/underlined in red]] and in his anger wants to do and say anything to offend or hurt him. Tells me that when [[underlined in red]] Deeds [[/underlined in red]] son died last year, the latter ordered a [[underlined in red]] deadmask [[/underlined in red]] made and later commissioned [[underlined in red]] Borglum to make a bust [[/underlined in red]] for which the latter charged him [[underlined in red]] $15000 [[/underlined in red]] and when [[underlined in red]] Deeds [[/underlined in red]] remonstrated for this extortion [[underlined in red]] Borglum [[/underlined in red]] became so angry that from that day he seems to have lost his senses and kept on reviling [[underlined in red]] Deeds [[/underlined in red]] to the utmost! - It is a shame and more
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so that so many men and newspaper writers and [[underlined in red]] Congressmen [[/underlined in red]] who have never done any constructive work in their lives, and are unfit to understand even [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] smaller manufacturing problem should seem so glad to join in the chorus of abuse against such splendid men as Deeds and Coffin
May 1, (1918) [[strikethrough]] Last in [[/strikethrough]] Still staying at University Club. This morning meeting of Board of Directors of General Bakelite Co - Stayed at University Club
May [[strikethrough]] 1 [[/strikethrough]] 2. This morning gave my lecture at Columbia, "General Considerations about Chemical Engineering" 
Lunch with [[underlined in red]] Pegram, McKee[[/underlined in red]] Jackson and [[underlined in red]] Pupin [[/underlined in red]] at Faculty Club.