Under Luhnow's administration the fund shifted its focus away from charities in the Kansas City area and began pursuing a number of strategies for increasing the acceptance of Old Right and Austrian economics thought in the United States. Luhnow's dedication to right-wing and libertarian ideas grew from his association with Loren "Red" Miller at the Bureau of Government Research, a Detroit-based "good government" foundation. During the 1930s, Miller helped Luhnow undermine the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and Miller introduced Luhnow to intellectuals and public figures who shared the businessmen's hostility to machine politics. During this period, Luhnow read books like F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" and became a proponent of classical liberalism.