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	Medical School - Historical Campus Tour - Washington University in St. Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Brookings was shocked and immediately went to New York to see Flexner, demanding proof that the conditions were as bad as described.
		The meeting in 1909 of Brookings and Flexner was of unsurpassed significance in the history of the Washington University School of Medicine, for it led to the complete reorganization of the School and the establishment of the present Medical Center.
		Robert Brookings accepted the challenge, and with the enery and vision which characterized all his enterprises, made the dream a reality.
	www.wustl.edu /tour/medicine (747 words)

	Brookings Oregon Resource Guide, City or community of Brookings, Oregon Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
		The population of Brookings is approximately 5,447 (2000).
		Brookings is positioned 42.05 degrees north of the equator and 124.29 degrees west of the prime meridian.
		Brookings average temperature is 53.8 degrees F. The average winter temperature is range: though temps may get into the 70’s, usual range is 45 (night) to days at 63 degrees F. The average summer temperature is range- mid 50’s at night to days at 73 degrees F. Return to Index
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brookings Institute
		Based in Washington, D.C., it describes itself as, "an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, education, and publication focused on public policy issues in the areas of economics, foreign policy, and governance." It was founded by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings (1850-1932).
		The institution's founder, philanthropist Robert Somers Brookings (1850-1932), originally financed the formation of three organizations: the Institute for Government Research, the Institute of Economics, and the Robert Brookings Graduate School.
		Nevertheless, Brookings is widely acclaimed for its intellectual rigor and pragmatic approach to a wide range of policy issues.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brookings-Institute (212 words)

	Brookings, Oregon - TheBestLinks.com - California, Census, Pacific Ocean, 2000, ...
		Due to its location Brookings is the warmest part of Oregon, where temperatures can reach 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit year around.
		While John E. Brookings was responsible for the founding of Brookings as a company town, it was his cousin Robert S. Brookings, who was responsible for its actual design.
		The latter Brookings hired Bernard Maybeck, an architect based in San Francisco who was later involved in the Panama-Pacific Exposition to lay out the plat of the townsite.
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	Brookings Oregon history of logging, lumber industry, milling, township, Brookings Land and Townsite Company, Brookings ...
		The C and O Lumber Company was formed as a partnership between three Wisconsin lumbermen, Eugene Shaw, John S. Owens and Nathaniel Foster, founders and owners of the Del Norte Company; and Robert Brookings, founder and owner of the Brookings Timber and Box Company.
		Rumors then had it that Robert S. Brookings had begun building a mill at the mouth of the Chetco River cove.
		The Brookings Company was also in debt $850,000 so the Del Norte company raised $2,800,000 and paid off the debt and purchased more C and O stock to furnish working capital.
	www.brookingslandandtownsiteco.com /columber.html (1116 words)

	Biography of Robert S. Brookings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert S. Brookings was born and acquired his early education in Cecil County, Maryland, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, to begin his career at age 17.
		As a civic leader and philanthropist, Brookings turned his creative energy to building Washington University and other St. Louis institutions until, with the coming of World War I, he moved to Washington and onto the world stage.
		Finally, Brookings' dream of an independent research institution devoted to solving problems of government and the economy became a reality with the merger in 1927 of the Robert Brookings Graduate School, the Institute of Economics, and the original Institute for Government Research established in 1916.
	www.brookings.org /lib/rsbbio.htm (312 words)

	The Brookings Institution - dKosopedia
		The Brookings Institution, whose predecessor was founded in 1918 by Robert Somers Brookings, was probably the first public policy institute in the USA.
		"Brookings has dedicated itself to improving the equity of the American democratic process, the performance of the economy, the health of society, the effectiveness of diplomacy and defense, the quality of public discourse, and the workings of institutions--public and private, domestic and international.
		The goal of Brookings activities is to improve the performance of American institutions and the quality of public policy by using social science to analyze emerging issues and to offer practical approaches to those issues in language aimed at the general public.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Brookings_Institution (833 words)

	Restoring the Public Trust
		The Brookings Institution was founded in 1927 at the instigation of Robert S. Brookings, a businessman, by a merger of two preexisting institutions, to advise the government about matters of public policy.
		Brookings, the capitalist, proved to be much more inclined to question the status quo than did experts who prided themselves on their objectivity.
		Thus Hamilton argued that the Graduate School, by emphasizing the liberal arts, which Willoughby and Brookings took for theoretical nonsense, was satisfying the primary goal of the program—the training of a cadre of economists to enter government as policy makers.
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	CanadianGrassroots.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Brookings Institution was established by St. Louis tycoon and philanthropist, Robert Somers Brookings(1850-1932).
		Brookings decided that economics was the biggest issue, and not administrative aspects that the Institute was covering, so in June, 1922, with a $1,650,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, he established the Institute of Economics to represent the interests of the labor unions and the general public.
		In 1924, he established the Robert S. Brookings School of Economics and Government(an outgrowth of Washington University in St. Louis), to allow doctoral students to spend time in Washington, D.C. to work on the staffs of the IGR and the Institute of Economics.
	www.canadiangrassroots.ca /sections.php?op=printpage&artid=1600 (5184 words)

	123Student
		Brookings, began in the 1920s with money from the industrialist Robert S. Brookings, a Renaissance man who aspired to bring discipline of economics to Washington.
		During the New Deal the Brookings Institution was marked-oriented--for example, it opposed Roosevelt's central planning agency, the National Resources Planning Board.
		Social justice and Vietnam dominated the agenda: Brookings concentrated on those fields, emerging as a chief source of arguments in favor of the Great Society and opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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	Brookings Institution - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		BROOKINGS INSTITUTION [Brookings Institution] at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est.
		Brookings-Princeton Briefing: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Brookings Institution, 75th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson School.
		Economic action plan in works ; The Brookings Institution is hired to identify problems and devise ways to make the state more competitive.
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	Brookings Oregon history of logging, lumber industry, milling, township, Brookings Land and Townsite Company, Brookings ...
		Robert Brookings wrote back and advised Walter that he would not interfere with the army's plan to induct him.
		Brookings gave up his interest in the Company in 1922 to the Stout Lumber Co. While the center of the west coast operation for the Stout Co. was in San Francisco, Brookings and Portland, the director was located in Thorton, Arkansas.
		Brookings is reached from California points by rail to Eureka and from Eureka by stage.
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	Washington University in St. Louis Magazine
		Much to the dismay of undergraduates, eagerly awaiting the move from their dingy downtown campus at 17th and Washington, Robert S. Brookings, president of the board, leased the first five University buildings to the Fair.
		Like his friend Robert Brookings, Francis was born in 1850, and by the time he died in 1927, after serving as ambassador to Russia from 1916-17, "Our Dave"—as St. Louisans proudly referred to him—was internationally known for his achievements, as well as his tireless energy and ebullient personality.
		China's exhibit, a reproduction of the summer palace of Prince Pu Lun, was exquisitely decorated with walls and doors made of carved wood and inlaid ivory; the bed was of ebony and inlaid with mother of pearl.
	magazine.wustl.edu /Summer04/AGloriousWorld%27sFair-np.htm (2026 words)

	Brookings Institution
		Brookings Institution, at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est.
		Robert Somers Brookings - Brookings, Robert Somers, 1850–1932, American businessman and philanthropist, b.
		Diane Ravitch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a professor at......
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	Brookings History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The original town of Brookings was established by John E. Brookings, cousin to Robert S. Brookings of the Brookings Institute, when he moved his lumber business from the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California in 1913.
		One of the first steps Brookings took was to hire a renowned architect, Bernard Maybeck, to lay out the street design for what is now the core area of the city.
		Because of it’s mild climate, beautiful coastline and quality of life, in the late 1980s Brookings was “discovered” as a desirable place to retire and much of the population growth has been retirees.
	www.brookings.or.us /About%20Brookings/history.htm (394 words)

	Brookings institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		Robert Somers Brookings (22 Jan 1850-15 Nov 1932) (1910-1932).
		She pledged $350,000 for Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (1924).
		Robert A. Franks (1910-1935) Trustee, The Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (3-10-1906).
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	Chapter 5
		Robert S. Brookings, founder of the Brookings Institution, is generally termed an economist, but Brookings himself wrote: "I certainly have no claim to that professional title.
		What then is preeminent in Brookings' writing is his predilection for any social system, communism, fascism, call it what you will, that reduces individual initiative and effort and substitutes collective experience and operation.
		Businessman Brookings gave his name and money to the influential research institute that produced the reports upon which much policy came to be based.
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	KnowledgePlex: Partner
		The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program was created to provide decisionmakers with cutting-edge research and policy analysis on the shifting realities of cities and metropolitan areas.
		The Brookings Institution is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to nonpartisan research, education, and publication in economics, government, foreign policy, and the social sciences generally.
		The Brookings Institution's principal purpose is to bring knowledge to bear on the current and emerging public policy challenges facing the American people and U.S. institutions and to help shape solutions to these issues for decisionmakers and the general public alike.
	www.knowledgeplex.org /partner-details.html?id=19 (274 words)

	Robert S. Brookings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		Brookings Boy Bags Biggest Fish on Opening Day
		Robert Fisk, a world renowned Middle East correspondent for London's Independent.
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	Brookings: Library: Archives: Records of Administration: Special Observances RECORDS OF ADMINISTRATION: Special ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A file documenting the fiftieth anniversary reunion of the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, held on October 16 and 17, 1974, also contains information about Robert Coleberd's proposed history of the graduate school.
		For other records relating to Brookings special observances, see entries 26, 31, and 106; for photographs of special observances, see entries 156 and 157.
		Gordon served as vice president of the Institution from 1965 to 1967 and as president from 1967 until his death on June 21, 1976.
	www.brookings.edu /lib/special.htm (230 words)

	Alliance for Regional Stewardship E-News -- September 2003
		Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Each month, we profile a national organization with which ARS has partnered to reach a broader audience capable of initiating action across sectors and jurisdictions.
		The Brookings Institution is one of the nation’s first public policy research organizations, founded in 1916 by St. Louis businessman and philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
		The Institution is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to nonpartisan research, education and publication in economics, government, foreign policy, and the social sciences generally.
	www.regionalstewardship.org /ARS_enews/March2004/Article5.php (584 words)

	War Collectivism in World War I
		[9] Head of the Advisory Commission was Walter S. Gifford, who had been one of the leaders of the Coffin Committee and had come to government from his post as chief statistician of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., a giant monopoly enterprise in the Morgan ambit.
		Robert S. Brookings, Chairman of the Price-Fixing Committee of the WIB, declared that the WIB would be "as helpful… during the reconstruction period as we have during the war period in stabilizing values."[60]
		In his important study of business-government relations in the War Industries Board, Professor Robert Cuff has concluded that federal regulation of industry was shaped by big-business leaders, and that relations between government and big business were smoothest in those industries, such as steel, whose industrial leaders had already committed themselves to seeking government-sponsored cartelization.
	www.mises.org /web/2024 (10677 words)

	Brookings, Oregon OR, city profile (Curry County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Brookings, OR Brookings is a city in Curry County.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Brookings was $17,010, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Brookings, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $514.
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	CFR AND THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
		The Brookings Institution was established by St. Louis tycoon and philanthropist, Robert Somers Brookings (1850-1932).
		In 1924, he established the Robert S. Brookings School of Economics and Government (an outgrowth of Washington University in St. Louis), to allow doctoral students to spend time in Washington, D.C. to work on the staffs of the IGR and the Institute of Economics.
		The role of the “conservative Brookings” was taken by an existing research center called the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, which was founded in 1943 by Louis H. Brown (Chairman of the Board at Johns-Manville Corporation), to promote free enterprise ideas.
	www.the7thfire.com /new_world_order/final_warning/cfr_and_the_brookings_institute.htm (4339 words)

	St. Louis Commerce Magazine
		Born in Maryland, Brookings was a phenomenon, a man who dropped out of school at 16 and made his first million by the age of 30, selling brooms and other household goods for the St. Louis firm of Cupples and Marston.
		Brookings probably didn’t imagine that his warehouses would cause so much debate in the region in the last two decades, nor that today nine of the remaining 10 warehouses would be undergoing renovations as a $300 million mixed-use project.
		Among them were the St. Louis Award, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, two NASA public service awards, the Forrestal Memorial Award, the Spirit of St. Louis Aviation Award, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Hunsaker Award.
	www.stlcommercemagazine.com /archives/december1999/top.html (6132 words)

	Buying, selling and investing in Oregon Real Estate, Coldwell Banker Oregon Coast Realty tips for buyers and sellers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The cost of City Building Permits to build a new home in Brookings will vary considerably according to the extent that water and sewer connections are installed to the lot line.
		This is not to say that Brookings does not have low overcast on occasion but the Brookings (Chetco) Effect apparently prevents the formation of fog.
		The Brookings mill closed in 1925 when employees influenced by the Communist lead Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) managed to slow production to a level that was lower than was profitable.
	www.oregonrealestate101.com /qa.html (8747 words)

	Tale of two cities - St. Louis Business Journal: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The region enjoying the largest growth, according to a new report -- Growth in the Heartland: Challenges and Opportunities for Missouri by The Brookings Institution -- was Kansas City.
		That is because the Brookings Institution has strong ties to Missouri, through its namesake and founder Robert S. Brookings.
		Brookings amassed a fortune working for and becoming a partner from 1867 to 1896 at Cupples and Marston, a woodenware company located in St. Louis.
	www.bizjournals.com /stlouis/stories/2004/03/29/editorial1.html (838 words)

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