Horkheimer recruited Adorno to America via a two-year, $400 monthly Princeton radio post

Evidence

The following day, 20 October, a telegram arrived from Horkheimer: Possibility your coming USA soon closer Stop If interest on your side part employment with new radio project Princeton University available two-year income 400 dollars monthly secured Stop Cable views in principle with earliest travel date Stop . . . Best Horkheimer.' At Horkheimer's invitation, Adorno had been to the United States for the first time a few months earlier, for a few weeks in June. He cabled his reply two days later: Happy and agree in principle also to Princeton work glad to come soonest Stop Difficulties 18-month tenancy agreement … and possible furniture removal from Germany grateful for cable with decision soonest Best Teddie.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 259

Categorization

• SHARE: The full telegram exchange — ‘Best Teddie’, furniture removal, an eighteen-month tenancy — is a niche delight for anyone who loves the Frankfurt School’s institutional minutiae.
• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s broader wartime relocation to the United States and the Princeton Radio Research Project. — connects to: The Rockefeller Foundation funded a Princeton radio research project with $67,000 in 1937. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 996
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Rockefeller Foundation funded a Princeton radio research project with $67,000 in 1937. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 996