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| 1923 || || Collaboration || IGR partners with {{w|Washington University in St. Louis}} to provide training in public service and establish the Robert S. Brookings Institute of Economics and Government for Teaching and Research (later the Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government). Between 1924 and 1930, 74 PhDs would be awarded by the school.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1927 || || Merger || IGR merges with its recenlty recently created sister organizations, the Institute of Economics and the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, to form the {{w|Brookings Institution}}, named after {{w|Robert Brookings}} in recognition of his services to all three organizations. Its mission: “to promote, carry on, conduct and foster scientific research, education, training and publication in the broad fields of economics, government administration and the political and social sciences generally.”<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1927 || || Leadership || The Brookings Trustees choose their first president: American economist {{w|Harold G. Moulton}}, who was previously director of the Institute of Economics and a member of the boards of the Graduate School and the Institute for Government Research.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu">{{cite web |title=BROOKINGS INSTITUTION HISTORY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/brookings-institution-history/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref>