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and after her death [[red underline]] paying the income to her heir or heirs but George remaining the administrator [[/red underline]] with full powers [[red underline]] except sale or exchange [[/red underline]] and he to receive [[red underline]] 10% of all [[/red underline]] dividends declared this in addition to any salary 
Told him also that [[red underline]] while I am alive trustee of fund is revocable he and his mother being fellow trustees and I exercising full power. [[/red underline]] Intend to give him 50% of my salary after deduction of all taxes and 10% of ^[[a]] net [[strikethrough]] income on Bakel [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] annual earnings of Bakelite [[/red underline]] after all taxes have been deducted, this for his help and assistance 
[[red underline]] He of course realises the liberality and advantages of this offer. [[/red underline]] He has shown
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so much good judgement and talent and has helped me so much in my work and rendered decidedly greater services than the low compensation Bakelite Corporation has paid him thus far. In proposing this my [[red underline]] only hesitation is that perhaps I am [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] withholding from [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] influencing him to his disadvantage of entering a career of broader opportunities  than are presented by Bakelite. Of course all this is mere guesswork. This is my answer to the excellent letters which he wrote me recently presenting his point of view and which I fully endorse. [[/red underline]] Nobody around me and certainly no member of my family