Letter from Peter Drucker to President Robert Devore Leigh

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1940-08-01

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Letter from Peter Drucker to President Robert Devore Leigh regarding a their meeting. Drucker is suggesting additional names candidates for Bennington's newly established honorary fellow positions, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's programs aiding refugee scholars. In the meeting Drucker had recommended Karl Polanyi, who joined the faculty in 1940. In this letter Drucker recommends soprano Lotte Leonard and her husband stating "Now both are in Toulouse and expect daily to be handed over to the German Secret Police."

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Drucker, Peter, 1909-2005, Leonard, Lotta, Leigh, Robert Devore, Heim, Emmy, Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964

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