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of any Commencement day [[strikethrough]] since [[/strikethrough]] I have been at.  
[[red underline]] Robert Bridges [[\red underline]] got an honorary degree with Mellon and others.  Afterwards lunch at Faculty Club with all the honorary degree men. - Then when we were thru violent showers. Jumped in a cab and drove to our office
June 5 This morning at the office arrived a rather talkative man who tried to bluff us into the belief that he represented endless English Capital and was going to get into the manufacture of phenolic resins whether wanted it or not, and wanted a licence for our patent of the use of bases.  This I declined
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politely His visiting card reads:
Edmond David [[red underline]] Girardot [[\red underline]]
Royal Aero Club
3 Cliff street London W.1.
George Baekeland, whom I called in told me he is the same man who jumped his hotel bill in Pennsylvania Hotel
Then came [[red underline]] Bradford [[\red underline]], Consul in Casablanca Morroco.  Took him with George B. for lunch at University Club
Afterwards at office long talk with [[red underline]] Redman [[\red underline]] on various pending maters. Redman would [[red underline]] like to go to England in October [[\red underline]] and utilize opportunity for