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Jan 12. Here all day.
Jan 13. Went to Ion, ordered Ivan to proceed with rudder.
went to meet Kirk Brown at Columbia University Club and discuss pending program. Explained him my intentions of [[strikethrough]] working [[/strikethrough]] operating an executive committee. He seems to think that Karpen would be in favor of moving Chicago plant East. Lastly he told me somebody from Boston who claims to represent reliable parties had offered him to buy up Condensite stock and when he asked him whether his offer would extend to cover that of the two other companies even if it involved several million dollars, his informant had answered yes, and had gone even so far as to indicate a formula for
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purchase price as follows:
Assets + earnings during five years.
Brown asked me whether I felt like discussing it further. To which I answered the matter did not interest me sufficiently but I had no right to prevent [[strikethrough]] my associates [[/strikethrough]] Karpen or my other associates discussing it. - I wonder whether this is a little scheme of Karpen to find out whether I would be disposed to sell out my stock and at what price?
Jan 14. Left early. Took lunch at Century Club then went to theatre and in Evening to University Club. then later to annual meeting of Century Club. Baskerville's condition still very grave.
Jan 15, 1922 (Sunday) This afternoon 3 P.M went to meet Dr. Hamerschlag (President Carnegie Institute Technology Pittsburgh) at