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New York. - To day answered a letter of [[red underline]] Gordon Brown [[/red underline]] in which he expresses rumor that [[red underline]] some of our men want to be enabled to buy stock in Bakelite Corporation. I wonder whether he or the others suggest this [[/red underline]] and whether the men who want to convert our concern in a merger or a company 
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[[red underline]] where Bankers, stockbrokers, or speculators can use it as a pawn or pretext for gambling regardless of my aims of founding an enterprise on good foundation, [[/red underline]] have anything to do with this. 
[[underline]] April 15 [[/underline]] Strong S.W. wind. Went to see Karpen in Miami Beach. Has still his right arm completely lame and his condition seems about the same
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as when I saw him last. Was surprised to find him in conference with [[red underline]] Jacobs. [[/red underline]] This very morning I received information [[red underline]] from Brock thru George B that Jacobs [[/red underline]] had prevented a director's meeting of [[red underline]] Autopaint by not issuing notices [[/red underline]] and not be willing to tell [[red underline]] Deli [[/red underline]] or Brock how to proceed, and that Jacobs resents or [[red underline]] opposes the suggestion [[/red underline]] made by the Operating Committee of Bakelite Corporation to appoint a similar operating committee for Autopaint. [[red underline]] Karpen tells me in presence of Jacobs that the latter "had dropped in unexpectedly. [[/red underline]] [[two large red exclamation points in left margin [[/left margin]] I telephoned this morning to Karpen when it would be convenient to meet him to day. His answer [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] as I understood it was "Any time before 3 P.M." So I arrived at 2 P.M. Perhaps