burgomaster
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The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning.
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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.
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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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The burgomaster has the power to suspend any of the council’s decrees for 30 days.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
