Émigré researchers sought state endorsement to unlock foundation funding.

Evidence

His impressions on a trip to the State Department in Washington made him equally sceptical. He and Neumann went to Washington to try to obtain some sort of letter of recommendation for a project on `The Elimination of German Chauvinism’, stating that the research had the importance of a recognized semi-official contribution to the war effort. They assumed that this would improve the prospects of its being supported financially by the Rockefeller Foundation or the Carnegie Corporation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 378

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how wartime states and foundations jointly shaped which social science got done in 1940s America.
• XREF: connects to: Founded-board dynamics and suspicion stalked the émigré Institute’s grant applications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; Funders sought to shape MPS program and membership through their money — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1465
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Founded-board dynamics and suspicion stalked the émigré Institute’s grant applications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; Funders sought to shape MPS program and membership through their money — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1465