The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by G. William Domhoff

Author:G. William Domhoff [Domhoff, G. William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Ensayo, Historia
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1974-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

[Lawrence] had got all he could hope for from the University budget, but he saw an untapped spring in the Regents personally. Most of them belonged to an Elk’s Club of the very rich called the Bohemian, which maintained a wonderful rustic lodge on the Russian River fifty miles north of Berkeley… Invitations were coveted; there was no more intoxicating distinction than to wash dishes at the Bohemian Grove while President [Robert G.] Sproul [of the University of California] dried them. Sproul supported Lawrence as faithfully at the Grove as at board meetings. He helped Lawrence to a jovial kitchen-sink intimacy with two of the most influential Regents, John Neylan and William Crocker.[29]

As a result of this kitchen-sink intimacy, Neylan made himself the chairman of a special regents' subcommittee to look after the needs of Lawrence’s radiation laboratory. Crocker, chairman of the university regents, gave Lawrence $75,000 in 1937 for a new building to house the bigger cyclotron.

The arrangement between the rich and the talented, then, is advantageous to members of both groups; each gets something it wouldn’t otherwise have. The anonymous author of Early Bohemia comprehended some of the mutual benefits in his turn-of-the-century complaint:

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