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During the last 20 years of Max's burgomastership, his right arm in the City Council was a physician named François van de Meulebroeck. Meulebroeck, no cock sparrow, weighed 235 pounds. His clothes bagged on him, he came of peasant stock and loved to chat in his native Flemish with the fishwives in the market place. On Max's death, Dr. Meulebroeck became Burgomaster of Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Two Burgomasters | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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