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English better than most Germans and makes good impression.
[[underlined]] Nov 13. [[/underlined]] At office, then to Columbia for meeting of [[red underlined]] Erasmus Anniversary [[/red underlined]] festivities.  Prof. [[red underlined]] Barman [[/red underlined]] presiding. - Then went to annual [[red underlined]] Motor Show. [[/red underlined]]  Three floors crowded with newest models of motor cars.  One floor almost exclusively occupied by "Caravans" or "Trailers" [[red underlined]] embodying practically a small habitation [[/red underlined]] + [[red underlined]] kitchen [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] sleeping quarters [[/red underlined]] for doing away with tents in motor-touring
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[[underlined]] Saturday. Nov. 16. [[/underlined]]  Sunny and bright.  Am now [[red underlined]] 73 years old; [[/red underlined]] nothing seems to ail me much.  [[red underlined]] Both Celine as well as myself are in remarkable health for our age. [[/red underlined]]
Afternoon Celine and I went to visit Mr. [[red underlined]] Raoul Grenade, [[/red underlined]] to bring him one of the new carbonators capped with Bakelite "Soda-King".  Met there Mr. Ernst, professor of French at N.Y. University and his wife.  He is the son of the former owners of the Mores Plate Glass works.  It rained much.  We stopped at George Baekeland's house.
[[left margin]] Freddie [[\left margin]]
[[red underlined]] George [[/red underlined]] is still [[red underlined]] away in Chicago [[/red underlined]] but [[red underlined]] little Freddie, [[/red underlined]] had just finished his bath and was in bed happy in reading the illustrated children page of the New York Herald Tribune
Nov 17/.  Yesterdays This Sunday edition of Herald Tribune in its science page gave a long article
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on the subject of the coming celebration of the [[red underlined]] 100th Anniversary [[/red underlined]] of the present [[red underlined]] U.S. patent office and cited me as among the best known inventors of the last period [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] called me the father of the modern plastics industry [[/red underlined]] (See page 6 Section II
[[left margin]] Am called [[red underlined]] Father of Modern Plastics Industry [[/red underlined]] [[\left margin]]
Marshall called at office to announce me they together with [[red underlined]] Cyanamid [[/red underlined]] Co and [[red underlined]] Unite Co [[/red underlined]] had finally come to an understanding as to giving mutual licences among each other.  They [[red underlined]] had taken over the Unite Co [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] Carlton Ellis [[/red underlined]] was out except that for his patent he is to receive a minimum of $25000 a year during its life time.  This sum to be obtained from cross licences between Cyanamid, Plaskon and Bakelite. - As soon as George B returns we shall hold a meeting with them to discuss the contract.
[[left margin]] Patent reform [[\left margin]]
Also [[red underlined]] discussed patent reform and [[/red underlined]] the [[red underlined]] McAdoo bill for one single court of appeals with him. [[/red underlined]] - We seem to agree on this subject.
[[underlined]] Nov. 17. [[/underlined]]  Yonkers tax comptroller claims $100.00 still due on my Yonkers Taxes 1935.  This is due to an error in addition, will send him check for amount.
Had visit of [[red underlined]] Dr. Arthur Lachman [[/red underlined]] of [[red underlined]] San Francisco, [[/red underlined]] took him for luncheon to the University Club.
[[underlined]] Nov. 18. [[/underlined]]  Am [[red underlined]] expected to join the celebration of the 400th anniversary [[/red underlined]] of [[red underlined]] Erasmus [[/red underlined]] at Columbia University