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[[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Nov 8 [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] Friday. Rain - Rain like yesterday. - Went to dinner and annual meeting of Century Club. Sat at table with [[red underline]] Elon Hooker [[/red underline]] Prof. Barnau and 2 others ? Talked about old times with [[red underline]] Hooker. [[/red underline]] - Present political discussions everywhere. (See Nov. 8 below)
[[underline]] Nov 9. [[/underline]] Calculated how much [[underline]] liquid [[/underline]] assets, including listed stock. etc Celine & myself possess for facing death taxes in case one of us dies and so as to avoid having to sell any Bakelite stock or Real Estate
I find [[strikethrough]] Celine [[/strikethrough]]
for Celine 1 249 900
for me 1 436 100
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[[strikethrough]] 2 886 000 [[/strike- through]]
2 686 000
Insurance 25 000
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not including
cash. 2,711,000
This has a considerable bearing on our position towards the [[red underline]] Cyanamid [[/red underline]] proposition where one of our considerations is liquidity of Cyanamid stock in case of death. [[red underline]] This way we are certainly in a good liquid position [[/red underline]] for payment of death taxes and without having to [[red underline]] sell Bakelite [[/red underline]] Stock
Beautiful day the Roll Children went with Celine & Nina to New York to see a cinema, "Peter Ibbetson
[[underline]] Nov 8 [[/underline]] Rain, Rain Rain. At office all day. George away hunting in Adirondacks: I visited the Automobile show at Grand Central Palace, behind our office building.
[[underline]] Nov. 10 Sunday. [[/underline]] Studying [[red underline]] Bruhat [[/red underline]] & other patents in relation to [[red underline]] Catalin [[/red underline]] at 1 P.M arrived here Nina [[strikethrough]] Ro [[/strikethrough]] and her four children for luncheon. [[red underline]] Peter now is 6. [[/red underline]] Baeke is [[red underline]] 8. [[/red underline]] Ninette 13 [[/red underline]]
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[[vertical note in left margin in red ]] Grandchildren [[/vertical note in left margin]]
and [[red underline]] Celine R. 15 all tall and well developed physically and mentally [[/red underline]] for their age. [[red underline]] Celine is getting so tall. [[/red underline]]. They are all doing well at school, and return this afternoon. Before leaving had private talk with Nina telling her that her actions had aroused the resentment of her friends who were married. Whether there was reason for it or not, she should be more cautious as to her reputation among her friends. This for the sake of her children as well as herself. Told her a divorcee who seemed friendly to married men, naturally aroused the jealousy of their wives, and the latter would not hesitate to tell exaggerated stories. But she lived in a small and nice community, among people who tried better to observe the rules of good society, than the dwellers in N.Y hotels or apartment houses. That any offenses she might commit would not be measured by yard sticks or weighing scales, but would be judged by the whims or attitude of her acquaintances. Appearances there were worse than realities when it came to criticisms or judgements. She complained that George B was so severe and unjust to her. - Told her that [[strikethrough]] her brother [[/strikethrough]] it was the duty of her brother to keep her in line, for the prestige of his children and the family at large. That she had been a problem to us all ever since she was a child and if it had not been for the patience of a child which her loving mother had always displayed towards here she [[strikethrough]] would be [[/strikethrough]] might be in very difficult conditions and grown into a very undesirable person Transcription Notes:
Georges Bruhat was a French physicist.
Baeke is Nina's son, Baekeland Roll.
