Luhnow had become president of the William Volker & Co., a national furniture distribution company and window-shade manufacturer located in Kansas City, Missouri in January 1938. Luhnow was a strident anti-New Deal conservative and was then in the process of converting a philanthropic fund originally intended to help the citizens of Kansas City into something completely different: a foundation to promote a rethinking of liberal politics in America. The Fund, which existed from 1932 to 1965, would play a major role in conservative intellectual politics in twentieth-century America.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 716