Horkheimer cut the Institute to a skeleton so he could write theory.

Evidence

In spite of some vacillations, the basic orientation of the Institute’s directors was clear. His dual role as a scholar and as director of the Institute of Social Research' 8 was too much for Horkheimer, who, as he had complained in his Notes from Beach Bluff’, did everything with exactly the same degree of libido', and for whom dictating a letter … involved the same amount of effort as writing a scholarly paper’. Alice Maier, his secretary in New York, recalled that `Mr Horkheimer thought very carefully about each and every word, and in two hours had sometimes not dictated a single word … Mr Horkheimer dictated to shorthand and then changed everything ten times.’ From now on, Horkheimer’s scholarly work was to take precedence. For this he would need only one or two principal assistants or collaborators. The institute was to be reduced in size to the extent that, although to outward appearances it would continue to exist, internally it would involve hardly any expense or energy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ account of Horkheimer’s multiple administrative and editorial burdens consuming his theoretical time. — connects to: Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s authorship of its own most successful study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 583; Horkheimer’s university rectorship starved the refounded Institute of his leadership — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 480; Horkheimer prioritized his own scholarly work over the Institute’s common resources as endowment shrank — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s authorship of its own most successful study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 583; Horkheimer’s university rectorship starved the refounded Institute of his leadership — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 480; Horkheimer prioritized his own scholarly work over the Institute’s common resources as endowment shrank — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer prioritized his own scholarly work over the Institute’s common resources as endowment shrank #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1086
• Horkheimer suppressed the Institute’s authorship of its own most successful study. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 583