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Supreme Court grants permission to examine their books to B Colby, who charges he was voted out of co after helping to build it up and is now denied proper share of profits
S Roseberry dresses in boy's clothes and attempts to register at N Y C Y M C A, is detected and arrested
DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 2 (AP). -- When Mr. Wood resigned as President of the American Woolen Company, in 1924, it was reported that he had suffered a shock, although he remained on the Board of Directors of the Meridan Woolen Company. He also resigned from the latter position within a year, and his son, Cornelius, who had been a Vice President, also severed his connection with the company.
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1926Hans-Jochen Vogel, German lawyer and politician, 8th Mayor of Berlin (died 2020)[†]
Hans-Jochen Vogel was a German lawyer and a politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Mayor of Munich from 1960 to 1972, winning the 1972 Summer Olympics for the city and Governing Mayor of West Berlin in 1981, the only German ever to lead two cities with a million+ inhabitants. He was Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development from 1972 to 1974, and Federal Minister of Justice from 1974 to 1981. He served as leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from 1983 to 1991, and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991. In 1993, he co-founded the organisation Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie. He was a member of the National Ethics Council of Germany from its beginning in 2001.