burgomaster

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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.

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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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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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"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.

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Four days later the burghers of Copenhagen, with the burgomaster at their head, overthrew the arrogant Danish nobles, and made Frederick III absolute monarch over Denmark and Norway.

From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.