Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the Courts of England and Wales. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2012. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

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1933Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front.^[†]

The German Labour Front was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification.

Headlines from May 2, 1933

Ten Children Killed in Italy By Use of Imperfect Vaccine

Roosevelt May Visit the Economic Parley; Cox Is Invited to Be Delegate to London; ROOSEVELT MAY GO TO LONDON PARLEY

30 NEW WARSHIPS ROOSEVELT GOAL; $46,000,000 Naval Construction Included in Public Works Program, Says Swanson. FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR President Will Ask Authority to Stop Building if Arms Parley Cuts Quotas, It Is Said. 30 NEW WARSHIPS ROOSEVELT GOAL

ART THIEVES RAID BROOKLYN MUSEUM; Ten Old Masters, Eight From Friedsam Collection, Taken During Week-End. WORLD ALARM IS SENT OUT Dangling Rope Is Left by the Invaders -- Fingerprints of Two Found on Window. ART THIEVES RAID BROOKLYN MUSEUM

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