[1] He continued his studies at the University of Michigan, obtaining two juridical doctorate degrees in 1930.
[3] In 1941, Berge was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Investigation Division of the Department of Justice by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Berge strongly supported the view that any monopoly would harm the free economy.
This corresponded to the radical, anti-monopolist position of the Roosevelt Progressivists, which had begun developing in 1937 and dominated American politics between 1943 and 1946.
However, this notion of international cartels was rejected by both the conservative and Marxist sides on the premise that it was unrealistic or imperialist.