Word: obermagistratsrat
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...Washington last week Dr. Gotthilf Paul Bronisch, Obermagistratsrat of the city of Berlin, sat down in the Mayflower Hotel's glittering main ballroom amid the flower of U. S. civic leadership. Around him were arrayed the mayors of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Duluth, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Omaha, Richmond, Savannah, Toledo, Tulsa, Saginaw, Stamford, Lima, Joplin. Durham, East Orange, Amarillo, many another city large and small. Half a hundred strong, they were ranged at long tables before the speaker's stand, they and their aides and emissaries, their bulbous noses and their pot bellies...
...Herr Doktor Obermagistratsrat needed only half an eye to see that a common anxiety gripped their respective bosoms, that a common passion stirred their hearts. What made each & every mayor anxious was the fact that his municipality was still dangerously long on joblessness requiring relief and uncomfortably short on cash to meet that requirement. What each & every mayor was in Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote...
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