Adolf A. Berle and in the expansion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944. After the war, Berle served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946. In October 1945, two days after the deposition of president Getulio Vargas, Berle pledged for the freedom of the Brazilian communists who were being incarcerated by the government since the beginning of the month. He then returned to his academic career at Columbia. Berle was a founding member of the New York State Liberal Party, a breakaway faction of the American Labor Party,
José Basco y Vargas José Basco y Vargas José Basco y Vargas,1st Count of the Conquest of Batanes Islands ( (1733–1805) was a naval officer of the Spanish navy who served as the 53rd governor of the Philippines under the Spanish Empire, from 1778 to 1787. He was one of the most economic minded governors-general that served in Spanish ruled Philippines. He established the "Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País", or the "Economic Society of Friends of the Country", which revived the tabacco industry in the Spanish Philippines. He established the basis for the takeoff of the agriculture of Philippine export with a