Word: boess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin's Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...
Berlin has had no Oberbürgermeister for the past five months, so long has it taken to liquidate the scandal of her last Lord Mayor, Gustav Boess, who resigned, although technically vindicated, after a trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
Irrevocably smirched seemed Gustav ("Pinochle Gus") Boess, famed Ober-Bürgermeister of Berlin, when, during his tour of the U. S. last year, it appeared that Frau Boess had "bought" a magnificent fur coat for next to nothing from the Sklarek brothers, Berlin clothing contractors to whom fat municipal contracts had been awarded...
Ober-Bürgermeister's trial was completed last week. Pretty Frau Boess sobbed in Court as though her heart would break...
...Court acquitted Herr Boess of "misdemeanor," censured him for "incorrect behavior," fined him one month's salary of 3,000 marks ($714). This left him free to retire last week ("because of poor health") and receive for life the handsome pension of a Berlin Ober-Bürgermeister (equivalent to "Lord Mayor"), namely: 30,000 marks ($7,140) a year...