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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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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In 1303, one Heinderic Crommelin was three times burgomaster of Der Kuere, near Ghent.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
