Word: landgerichtsdireklor
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
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