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[[underlined]] Jan 31. [[/underlined]] (Sunday) A very busy day here. [[strikethrough]] Walen [[/strikethrough]] Wrote a two page letter to Operating Committee requesting them to send me their [[conclusions?]] on pending matters and to [[underlined in red]] compel Sandford Brown to answer my questions [[/underlined in red]] as to prepare a [[underlined in red]] list of the men he thinks ought to be discharged [[/underlined in red]] also to tell us in detail the steps he proposes to [[underlined in red]] take so as to run the company in a better [[/underlined in red]] way instead of serving us a lot of generalities. In this letter I call a spade a spade. Handwritten letter was mailed to George Baekeland for action. Also sent a separate letter to George that it is my intention [[underlined in red]] henceforth to talk point blank to Sanford Brown. [[/underlined in red]]
Papers announce threatening [[underlined in red]] news from China since Japanese [[/underlined in red]
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troops are [[underlined in red]] occupying Sanghai which threatens international [[/underlined in red]] complications and may us embroil again in war. 
Wind shifted Northerly for the first time since my arrival. Thus far it had not changed from steady Easterly. Cold weather almost everywhere but here. Lowest tonight was 76° F
[[underlined]] Feb. 1. [[/underlined]] Wind again in East, but showers & cloudy. All morning answering letter. Sent [[underlined in red]] telegram to Nielsen telling him not to abandon Groff laminated [[/underlined in red]] patent in England but leave it to Germany to decide whether to drop it in other European countries. - Began work in indexing my journal. Mailed Redman a copy of my letter to Operating Committee concerning [[underlined in red]] Sanford Brown and asked [[strikethrough]] me [[/strikethrough]] him to wire me his opinion. [[/underlined in red]] I am under the impression that George