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| 1928 || || || {{w|United States Secretary of the Interior}} {{w|Hubert Work}} commissions IGR’s Lewis Meriam to undertake a comprehensive survey of the condition of {{w|Native American}}s. The resulting report, titled ''The Problem of Indian Administration'' (known as {{w|Meriam Report}}) becomes influential in shaping American Indian affairs policies in the {{w|Herbert Hoover}} and {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} administrations.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Russell M. |title=Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today [2 volumes] |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=-5nYmCjtMcQC&pg=PA172&dq=The+Problem+of+Indian+Administration+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWu5OYvtHlAhUMIbkGHX_mAm8Q6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=The%20Problem%20of%20Indian%20Administration%201928&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition |edition=Bruce Elliott Johansen |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=-hKB7AmyP5cC&pg=PA190&dq=Meriam+Report+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjepraFvtHlAhXMH7kGHcFfAZIQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=Meriam%20Report%201928&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Szasz |first1=Margaret |title=Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-determination Since 1928 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=9KofsMyJrK4C&pg=PA194&dq=Meriam+Report+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjepraFvtHlAhXMH7kGHcFfAZIQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Meriam%20Report%201928&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1928 || || Institutional || "Dawn of In-House Book Publishing institutional milestone Brookings begins its own in-house publishing division, the forerunner of which precedes the Brookings Institution Press."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1932 || || Leadership || {{w|Robert Brookings}} dies in {{w|Washington, D.C.}} at the age of 82. His book ''The Way Forward'' is published just before his death, in which Brookings calls for the more equal distribution of wealth.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1935 || || || "1935 Analyzing New Deal Programs An Institute of Economics team directed by staff economist Leverett Lyon publishes a comprehensive study of President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration (NRA), a New Deal agency. The study’s authors conclude that the NRA impeded economy recovery after the Depression. Two years later, Edwin Nourse, an agriculture economist and director of the Institute of Economics, publishes a study of administrative problems in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace said that “We’ve been doing so much wishful thinking around here, we’d benefit from an independent audit.” Nourse went on to become the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Harry Truman."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1939 || || || "In “Reorganization The {{w|Brookings Institution}} publishes ''Reorganization of the national government: What does National Government—What Does it involveInvolve?” Brookings '', in which scholars and Lewis Meriam and Laurence F. Schmeckebier shed light on President {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}}'s {{w|Reorganization Act of 1939}}, which permitted the president to reorganize certain aspects of the executive branch and created the Executive Office of the President."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Reorganization of the National Government—What Does it Involve? By Lewis Meriam and Laurence F. Schmeckebier. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 1939. Pp. 272. $2.00.) |doi=10.2307/1948805 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/reorganization-of-the-national-governmentwhat-does-it-involve-by-lewis-meriam-and-laurence-f-schmeckebier-washington-dc-the-brookings-institution-1939-pp-272-200/BB6E846182E174EC3426ED29D758BE96 |accessdate=4 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1939 || || || "Supporting the War Effort. Throughout World War II, Brookings experts recommend policies on a variety of issues, including wartime price controls, military mobilization, German and U.S. manpower requirements, and later, postwar demobilization and preventing Germany and Japan from re-arming. Even before U.S. entry into the war, one Brookings researcher advised that “The United States should introduce the formula of the blitzkrieg in the armament production program” to defeat Germany."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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