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April 30. Showers all day. Rigger continued his work this afternoon. Called up [[red underline]] May [[/red underline]] over the phone about [[red underline]] latest letter of Kirk Brown. May positively asserts that he never [[/red underline] called our solid A as Hexaphenol A.
May 1 1921 (Sunday)  Cloudy morning 
May 2. Arrived here. Shannon's assistant [[red underline]] [[Shemul Tzitlonok?]] [[/red underline]] (c/o Mrs. Evans, 72 Madison Ave Perth Amboy) a wild eyed and sinister [[red underline]] looking Russian Jew. [[/red underline]] Complains Shannon gives him no credit for his work etc etc, and says he has resigned and now is [[strikethrough]] ou [[/strikethrough]] without a position and offers to sell a better way for obtaining tortoise-shell effects which he has worked out while working under Shannon. Told him
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I must refer the whole matter to Rossi which I did. I believe the [[red underline]] mistake is to have engaged this man at all who makes a very bad [[/red underline]] impression even at first sight.
May 3. All afternoon on [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] working at changes. Celine Nina and George Roll to N.Y. to see film of [[red underline]] "Four Horsemen of Apocalypse" [[/red underline]]
May 4. This evening went to listen to [[red underline]] Pupin's [[/red underline]] lecture on recent advances in Physics. It rained dogs and cats
May 5. Met [[red underline]] Kirk Brown [[/red underline]] by appointment at 2:30 P.M at Century Club. Told him am tired of continuing to be bothered with business management of General [[red underline]] Bakelite Co and am looking for ways of being relieved thereof. [[/red underline]] That

Transcription Notes:
Shannon's assistant may be Schevel Tzitlonok, who wrote a play, "Children of the Universe," about a chemist's laboratory.