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[[underline]] Dec. 8 [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] My stone crabs sent from Miami cooled and shipped in cracked ice have arrived at the University club for [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] told me that some one [[red underline]] has told A. Karpen [[/red underline]] about our negotiations with [[red underline]] Union Carbide [[/red underline]] and that Karpen inquired further and said he could speak out because he knew all about it. Rossi did not learn the name of the informant but [[red underline]] Swan, George B, Redman and Hays who besides Sanford Brown were the only ones who knew about it assure me they told [[/red underline]] to no one. I shall ask to [[red underline]] Sanford Brown who visited Karpen in Chicago shortly before [[/red underline]] Rossi arrived there. - This lack of discretion preoccupied me considerably
[[underline]] Dec.9. [[/underline]] Wired to Miami for [[red underline]] Stone-crabs [[/red underline]] for my [[red underline]] dinner [[/red underline]]
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At [[red underline]] University Club Dec 16. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Th [[/strikethrough]] This afternoon meeting with Geo B, Rossi, Redman and Sanford Brown. to determine what dividends to pay. Called their attention to inroads made in our liquid assets by [[left margin in red]] !!! [[/left margin]] [[red underline]] 2000.000$ [[as written]] new plant and $200,000 additional lab. building [[/red underline]] and how our general expenses have much [[strikethrough]] risen [[strikethrough]] risen. Had asked Geo B. not to mix in the discussion. I [[red underline]] let them have their own way. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] They [[/strikethrough]] The three together proposed a [[red underline]] 6% [[/red underline]] extra dividend on common payable before end of year and a 2% payable in 1931 at the usual time. I [[red underline]] did not discuss and let them have their own way [[/red underline]]
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Before the meeting I told to [[red underline]] Sanford Brown [[/red underline]] in presence of the others [[strikethrough]] what [[/strikethrough]] that Karpen had been informed and whether he had spoken to him. He said no.
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