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[[underlined]] December 1 [[/underlined]] Saturday. George better. still at home. Evening. Monthly supper and entertainment at Century Club. Not many of my friends. [[red underlined]] Elon H. Hoover tells me his two young daughters while they were in [[/red underlined]] England took the fancy of [[red underlined]] flying to Russia [[/red underlined]] where they now are. and they have scant news about them except that they are well and much interested in Russia. 
[[left margin in red and underlined]] Daughter of Elon Hooker [[/left margin]]
[[underlined]] Dec 2. [[/underlined]] (Sunday) Sunny pleasant weather. [[red underlined]] Dicky [[/red underlined]] here all week
[[left margin in red and underlined]] Dicky! [[/left margin]]
[[red underlined]] Charming child. Kind, generous cheerful, very intelligent and wide awake, witty and interested in everything. [[/underlined]] Am glad to see her again in good health altho' she is still rather thin
[[underlined]] Dec. 3. [[/underlined]] Better news from A. Karpen. [[strikethrough]] left [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Right]] side still paralyzed cannot write. Busy day in New York
[[underlined]] Dec. 4 [[/underlined]] George back at office
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and well again. [[red underlined]] Dick & Jim [[/red underlined]] both [[red underlined]] ill. [[/red underlined]] Dick since Sunday. Grippe
[[underlined]] Dec. 5. [[/underlined]] Directors meeting at 10 AM to vote on issue of preferred cumulative non voting stock. Karpen absent on account of illness. Sanford Brown in Chicago excused. All others there. Leo Karpen present to listen to discussion. Short meeting where everybody readily agreed
Afternoon [[red underlined]] gave lecture in Columbia [[/red underlined]] to Chemical Engineering department 4:30 P.M. My colleagues there and all seats taken. Subject [[red underlined]] "Why Chemical Engineering".[[/red underlined]]
[[underlined]] Dec. 6. [[/underlined]] Busy day at office sending out proxies for [[strikethrough]] General [[/strikethrough]] Annual stockholder's meeting of Bakelite. Addressed private letter to my friends outside R&H group asking them for their proxies, which I shall need if I want a directorate where no outside interests [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] ^[[like]] R&H are included.