burgomaster

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany.

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Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied."

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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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"Oh, Gerard! who think you, hath sent to our house seeking you?—the burgomaster himself."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles