Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff

Evidence

Many of the staff were left confused and insecure by more or less secretive hints dropped about the Institute’s impending financial collapse, and by obscure reductions in their salaries. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 272

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute’s directors feared a conspiracy of financially disappointed associates. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1217; Institute directors concealed their theoretical aims rather than confidently defending them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379; Horkheimer governed the Institute by giving each staff member contradictory private information — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1090 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute’s directors feared a conspiracy of financially disappointed associates. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1217; Institute directors concealed their theoretical aims rather than confidently defending them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 379; Horkheimer governed the Institute by giving each staff member contradictory private information — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1090 (+4 more)