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on the question of special compensation for all three. They want to do the same thing as last year, or higher. Told them am too tired to discuss now best will do so later on. 
Schleussner early in the afternoon took me apart and announced me as a piece of very good news that 300 or 400 shares of R&H stock was received for me at par + 7 or 8 for costs of adjustment. That a similar offer had been made to Hays and to the head of his law firm. That the stock was not offered to others except some very intimate people who had been picked out. That I was one of them. That all this was possible since R&H had been able just now to purchase all the foreign holdings also Alien Property 
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stock. That R&H now controled 100% of all the Perth Amboy Chemical Co stock. That R&H was run very conservatively similary to Bakelite Corporation and only paid 6% reg. dividend with once in a while an extra dividend 
That their assets were very conservative and way beyond par. That for instance the 6000 shares stock on the Bakelite Corporation was only inventoried amongst the assets as the original cash they paid for the original 200 shares of General Bakelite Co. 
Nov. 27. A very busy day. Executive Committee meetings. Kept them busy most of the morning helping me to frame new employment contract which was finally adopted 
Hays present. Rossi announces