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