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[[red underlined]] general qualifications [[/red underlined]] are and [[red underlined]] how far inferior he is to [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] those of George Baekeland and the other men of our staff [[/red underlined]] who all have found their way by [[red underlined]] their own merits [[/red underlined]] to the position they occupy to day. Nor does he seem to realise that from the goodness of my heart and [[red underlined]] in order not to offend George Roll or Nina I have kept George Baekeland to the same rate of pay as George Roll, while the latter at $15000 is paid much too high while George Baekeland at the same rate is paid much too low in comparison to those who render equal services to George.[[/red underlined]] I [[strikeout]] cho [[/strikeout]] told George Roll he could have any job for which he was better qualified than now. I asked him if he wanted to serve in manufacturing
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or research, or advertising, or sales department and [[red underlined]] thus forced [[/red underlined]] him [[red underlined]] to admit the Truth of his lesser qualifications for any of these jobs. I feel terribly upset by [[strikeout]] the [[/strikeout]] his new display of boorish arrogance, [[/red underlined]] his ingratitude towards me who for many years have patiently [[strikethrough]] bor undergone [[/strikethrough]] stood all this, trying to avoid causing trouble in his family and always bearing in mind that after all he is a man who is clean and honest and means well altho' he [[strikethrough]] is hopelessly [[/strikethrough]] seems sluggish in grasping a situation, is very ignorant in what any man of culture or technical training ought to know and generally knows. Furthermore [[red underlined]] he seems hopeless in trying to correct this by self improvement and self study. He seldom or never reads, [[/red underlined]] seems to be