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This evening took Celine to see the arrival of one of the large 4 motor [[underlined in red]] Sikorsky Airplanes [[/underlined in red]] from Havana with about twenty passengers in it landing at the [[underlined in red]] Dinner Key Panamerican [[/underlined in red]] Air station. - Blizzard in Chicago, freezing in New York!
March 23. Sultry day after cool day yesterday. [[underlined in red]] Bakelite varnish on cement floor peels off and is soft! [[/underlined in red]]
^[[Federal]] Judge [[underlined in red]] Halsted Ritter [[/underlined in red]] and his wife visited here and I served them some of my [[underlined in red]] home made grapefruit champagne [[/underlined in red]] which they seemed to like much.
[[underlined]] March 24. [[/underlined]] Telegraphed Rossi
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consenting to [[underlined in red]] patent license contract with Westinghouse [[/underlined in red]] concerning their [[underlined in red]] fibre patent [[/underlined in red]] paying them royalty.
It rained again last night. Celine went to Surf Club with Mrs. Ritter and other ladies
[[underlined]] March 25. [[/underlined]] The proposed [[underlined in red]] sales tax is defeated [[/underlined in red]] by House of representative, thus upsetting the whole program of the cabinet for [[strikethrough]] making [[/strikethrough]] balancing the enormous deficit. [[underlined in red]] Wild scenes, [[/underlined in red]] party lines broken and a mad scramble for whom could best play for the gallery and thus purchase votes at the expense of taxpayers. [[underlined in red]] A disgusting exhibit of mediocre selfish men willing to sacrifice the [[/underlined in red]]