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87/ festivities he sent me the original typewritten copy of the proceedings as presented by Brady to the Times and on which my name stands first on the list. [[underlined]] Oct 29. [[/underlined]] At office. - Took Kingsbury to U. Club for luncheon then to Automobile Show. [[underlined]] Oct 30. [[/underlined]] In Yonkers all day. [[underlined]] (Sunday) Oct 31. [[/underlined]] Celine going to [[red underlined]] Troy [[/red underlined]] by motor to visit [[red underlined]] Celine and Ninette. [[/red underlined]] Beautiful day. Kingsbury is away to visit Swope of General Electric Co. [[underlined]] November 1. [[/underlined]] At office. [[underlined]] November 2. [[/underlined]] Election day. At home. [[red underlined]] Tammany badly beaten [[/red underlined]] by Mayor La Guardia and fusion ticket. - Similar results of gains against "New Deal" in other parts of the country, specially against [[red underlined]] Lewis [[/red underlined]] and his arrogant [[red underlined]] labor union. Rossi [[/red underlined]] took this occasion to let our [[red underlined]] office employes [[/red underlined]] visit the [[red underlined]] Bound Brook [[/red underlined]] plant. Carried 58 of them in 2 omnibuses, to and from Bound Brook where a luncheon was offered to them. [[underlined]] Nov 3. [[/underlined]] Was [[red underlined]] invited by Grenade [[/red underlined]] as a guest to luncheon offered to [[red underlined]] Dr. Gevaert, [[/red underlined]] who has been designated by [[red underlined]] Belgian Government [[/red underlined]] to be the [[red underlined]] head of the Belgian Exhibit [[/red underlined]] at the coming [[red underlined]] World Exhibition [[/red underlined]] in New York. Luncheon was at top-floor restaurant of [[end page]] [[start page]] \88 Rockefeller Center. (Rockefeller Center Club). Beautiful sight over New York and environs. Many men of C.R.B. there. Grenade presiding with Gevaert at his right. - I was placed to the right of Gevaert, who asked me to lend my name to the Belgian Committee. Neighbor on my right was Mail Hon. Belgian Consul General. About 30 more guests present. Well served luncheon and good wines. [[strikethrough]] Oct. 3 Sunday [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Nov. 4. [[/underlined]] Stayed home all day to go to Chandler [[red underlined]] Memorial [[/red underlined]] Dinner at 8 P.M. - [[red underlined]] Waldort Astoria. [[/red underlined]] The great Ballroom of Hotel entirely filled. Several hundred participants. Everything well managed by [[red underlined]] Dr. Zanetti, [[/red underlined]] who in his quiet and efficient way organised everything. [[red underlined]] I was placed on the Dais (Speakers table, [[/red underlined]] presided by [[red underlined]] Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, [[/red underlined]] who as usually made an excellent speech. Dinner was preceded by a reception. Met many friends I had not seen since many years. A very successful and well organised event. Back in Yonkers about midnight. [[underlined]] Nov. 5. [[/underlined]] At office. - [[red underlined]] Dr. von Vietinghoff [[/red underlined]] called me at phone. - Will see him Monday, 1 P.M. [[underlined]] Nov 6. [[/underlined]] All day in Yonkers, reading and writing. Celine left this afternoon to visit George, will be back tomorrow afternoon. [[underlined]] Nov. 7 [[/underlined]] Sunday - Wrote belated letters to Sir Robert Mond [[underlined]] Nov 8 [[/underlined]] [[red underlined]] Dr. Von Vietingholff [[/red underlined]] came to visit me. He is returning to Germany coming Friday. - Took him to U.C. and