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The Institute was legally dissolved on February 22, 1973 and its assets were turned over to the Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, in June 1976. Correspondence and financial documents regarding the affairs and dissolution of the Institute.

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Correspondence and legal and financial documents relating to the dissolution of the Institute and the assignment of its assets to the Philosophy of Science Association.

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1947, 1950-1955, 1957, 1959-1961. Correspondence and financial documents relative to the financial affairs of the Institute.

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1946-1947, 1949-1950. Routine correspondence with Doctor John Collier, President of the Institute of Ethnic Affairs, Incorporated; and Doloris Coulter, editor, about Doctor Konvitz's publications.

Scope and Contents [1948-1949] 1951-1952, 1958. Correspondence with officers of the Institute on Church and State, Incorporated, on the preparation of a pamphlet on separation of church and state by Konvitz for the Institute. In a memo to Professors Kallen and Norton, and R. Lawrence Siegel, Konvitz explains that he treated only the question of broad principle in his pamphlet and that he intended it to strongly conflict with the positions of the Catholic Church (June 10, 1948). Siegel informs Konvitz that the...

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Routine correspondence from the Ad Hoc Committee for Intellectual Freedom. Konvitz is a sponsor of the Committee.

Scope and Contents 1957-1958, 1960-1962. Detailed correspondence with David S. Blanchard, Deputy Director of the International Labor Office, Washington Branch, in regard to the possibility of the International Labour Organization assisting in the establishment of an Institute or Department of Labor Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Konvitz explains that he was commissioned by the University to attempt to devise a plan for the establishment of a labor studies department or institute...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with publishers, journals, law schools, and sponsors of conferences inviting Doctor Konvitz to make submissions. Letter from Lewis Mumford, thanking Konvitz for his "perceptive and penetrating" review in the December 19, 1970 Saturday Review of Mumford's book, The Myth and the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (December 21, 1970). Correspondence with Paul Kurtz, Editor of The Humanist. Konvitz responded to a request by Kurtz to answer three questions regarding campus turmoil,...