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[[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Dane Mfg [[/vertical annotation]]
Club. Everything very friendly he recognizes his business blunders and [[red underline]] general laxity, endorses our [[/red underline]] conclusions, and says is willing to submit to our own decision. Told him Hays will instal new [[red underline]] board of directors, Morton [[/red underline]] will be dispensed with, probably also bookkeeper, [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] and that Hays is [[red underline]] chairman of committee with May and Fuller to [[/red underline]] confer with Burroughs Brothers Co before passing upon claims of that company so as to come to a fair adjustment.
[[red underline]] Burroughs [[/red underline]] expressed his wish of [[strikethrough]] being [[/strikethrough]] keeping up further technical relations with bakelite Co on base of a retainer. Told him this meets our own views but these matters will have to be taken up when occasion presents and after we have
[[vertical annotation in left margin]] After leaving Burroughs called on William Washburn Nutting of "Typhoon" fame. [[/vertical annotation]]
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straightened up present tangle  
Went for supper at University Club. [[red underline]] Feel very tired and [[/red underline]] nervous and could not fall asleep until about 2 AM.
Feb 1. (1921) Called up [[red underline]] Hays to tell him about committee and [[/red underline]] George Roll went to New York to meet him at noon and discuss matters.
[[strikethrough]] Feb 2. Laurence Byck here this afternoon [[/strikethrough]]
Feb 2. [[red underline]] Shannon [[/red underline]] here. Went over situation of transparent department with him. Orders are very small, about [[red underline]] 700 [[/red underline]] lbs. laid out work for future research and general program. He submitted samples of [[red underline]] tortoise shell [[/red underline]] effects [[/strikethrough]] Fe [[/strikethrough]] George Roll present at interview.
Feb 3. Got away early to Director's meeting of General Bakelite Co. Peters not at the meeting. Williams says Peters has nervous prostration