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his relations with Young & Ottley. - Told George Roll I respected his feelings and that he was only acting as an honest conscientious man when refusing to urge others to put their interests in the hands of that firm. He told me their qualifications for advising on stocks were good Told him he should talk to Geo Baekeland [[strikethrough]] and that [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Jan 15. [[/underlined]] Sent wine to Hachett and to Dean Baring
[[underlined]] Jan 16 [[/underlined]] Book value of General Electric is $14.16 per share common Dividend $1.60 per year but their earnings 1931 = 1.35 " " [[dittos for: per year]] estimated [[strikethrough]] Her [[/strikethrough]] all day at office
[[red underlined]] Jan 17 (Sunday) Packing & collecting paper for Florida [[/red underlined]] 
[[underlined]] Jan 18. [[/underlined]] This morning just when I was leaving the house got a special delivery letter from
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[[red underlined]] Sanford Brown. [[/red underlined]] which he had posted just in time so as to prevent me using yesterday to study its contents and prepare an answer. [[red underlined]] The letter tries to tire me by literally following my instructions to vice presidents [[/red underlined]] and asks me a lot of foolish questions which answer themselves to any person of average intelligence and good will so I answered him in this sense and rather impatiently. He evidently [[red underlined]] selected this day to harass me [[/red underlined]] because to night I am leaving for Florida and Monday is a busy day as it is and more so today
AT 4:10 P.M. Faculty meeting (Engineering) at Columbia U.
Am [[red underlined]] leaving with 10:05 P.M train by Seaboard Air line. [[/red underlined]] So had supper at University Club where I met [[red underlined]] Pupin [[/red underlined]] and Hornbortle at our "Engineers"