Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
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Komla Agbeli Gbedemah was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961. Known popularly as "Afro Gbede", he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta
15 August 1959: Gbedemah (seated left) signs a finance agreement on behalf of Ghana with West Germany
Howard Johnson's
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Howard Johnson by Wyndham, still commonly referred to as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with roughly 300 hotels in 15 countries. It was also formerly a restaurant chain, which at one tim
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
…is most widely known from an incident on 10 October 1957 when U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to him after he was refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Delaware. Gbedemah told the staff: "The people here are of a lower social status than I am, but they can drink here and we can't…
Howard Johnson entered the airline catering market
Howard Johnson's restaurant entrance with emblematic weather vane and orange roof
HoJo motor lodges used a lamplighter character lighting a lamppost with the Simple Simon character pointing to the light
Historic promotional image of the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in Miami Beach