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Investments & Young [[/note in left margin]]
If [[red underline]] we had acted in time [[/red underline]] upon his advice based on Young's recommendation we [[red underline]] would have avoided considerable depreciation in our invested funds. Young [[/red underline]] whom I observed while he was lecturing on present and future financial conditions [[red underline]] did not impress me favourably except that he seemed to be honest in his opinion and doctrinaire in his conclusions. [[/red underline]] He is a relatively young man in his early thirties and the success he has had in his predictions, which may have been more guess crowned by luck, seems to have him made [[red underline]] stubborn [[/red underline]] in his logic. He seems to me more like a determined man of the kind one meets in foot-ball or athletic games, who has not yet outgrown the age of recklessness, backed by determination and who has not yet suffered from defeat after cocksure conclusions. - Well, we shall immediately take steps to hold that stockholders meeting. The
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bye-laws of our corporation do not make it possible to hold it before Oct. 10, so the red tape for it is reeled off promptly today.
[[underline]] Sept 20. [[/underline]] 
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Dr. Kurt Ripper [[/note in left margin]]
At office all day and then with Major to Italian Pier to meet [[red underline]] Dr. Kurt Ripper [[/red underline]] and his wife on SS. Saturnia from Trieste. After certain formalities took him to his Hotel [[red underline]] Barbizon Plaza [[/red underline]]  near South Side of Central Park
Pleasant neat, yet not [[strikethrough]] exp [[/strikethrough]] too expensive hotel, well built and managed and frequented by a better class of guests than those large pretentious hotels. Room 22d floor, overlooking all Central Park. They seem delighted. Stayed to take supper with them. - Then drove to Yonkers. - Poor sleep after a very busy day. Feel very tired
[[underline]] Sept 21. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Ripper [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] here at [[/strikethrough]] at office all morning with me alone. 
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[[red underline]] Nina - divorce [[/red underline]] [[/note in left margin]]
Had to call up Hays for holding urgent meeting 
He told me he was at his office in conference with [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] who is consulting him she [[red underline]] wants to go to Reno [[/red underline]] and then get [[red underline]] divorce from Roll [[/red underline]] for nonsupport and incompatibility. Her constant quarrels have been going on for a long time, and the final