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I certainly [[red underlined]] would not stand it from my own son, [[/red underlined]] but that my [[red underlined]] son would not behave that way [[/red underlined]] and never had nagged me nor anybody else. In the letter he wrote me last year to Coconut Grove he ^[[George Roll]] had promised me to be "a good soldier" and obey orders as everybody else in the company. cheerfully and logically does. That [[red underlined]] he had broken his promise [[/red underlined]] and that I could not keep on this thing forever. If he behaves this way while I am still alive what would happen after I am dead and could exercise his arrogance and unwarranted assertiveness towards George Baekeland. - When this thought flashed thru my brain I told him that in as far as he wanted to place his own interests above those of the Corporation to satisfy his
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egotism and vanity I could take no further chances with him and therefore I would not place his name on the ticket [[red underlined]] unless he signed his resignation in advance,[[/red underlined]] [[strikethrough]] to be [[/strikethrough]] and handed it to me, [[red underlined]] so that at anytime he misbehaves again I could hand it in to the Directors.[[/red underlined]] He seemed to become rather [[red underlined]] meek [[/underlined]] and told me he would [[strikethrough]] sign [[/strikethrough]] sign me such a document. Otherwise he could maintain his egoistic antics [[strikethrough]] for a [[/strikethrough]] until the end of the year he was elected. In case of my death he might become a real nuisance to everybody particularly [[red underlined]] George Baekeland [[/red underlined]] whom he [[red underlined]] unjustly suspects [[/red underlined]] of being [[red underlined]] antagonistic [[/red underlined]] to him and whom his pride causes to envy. [[red underlined]] I am not sure that George Roll has even the intelligence to realise how limited his knowledge [[/red underlined]] information, tact, and