The Rockefeller Foundation rejected the Institute’s anti-Nazism research project in April 1941

Evidence

At the end of April, Lowenthal cabled him that the Rockefeller Foundation had rejected the project on Cultural Aspects of National Socialism'. The months of work on the two projects, the mobilization of all sorts of people, the continuation of normal’ business at the Institute, and the postponement of the long-awaited start of work on the dialectics bookall of this seemed to have been in vain. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 299

Categorization

• XREF: Bookends the institute’s fundraising arc — the rejected grant is the pivot that delayed the Dialectic of Enlightenment manuscript’s start. — connects to: The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1148; The Institute’s American grant applications were repeatedly rejected in 1941. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1987 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1148; The Institute’s American grant applications were repeatedly rejected in 1941. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1987 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1148