burgomaster

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To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly.

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Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.

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The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.

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In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.

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The burgomaster and aldermen could not deny this fundamental piece of historical logic.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem