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.

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Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first � Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg.

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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.

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So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree.

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When forty years of age he was made an alderman of Copenhagen, and in 1654 became its chief burgomaster.

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