he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only because of the years they worked together but also because they shared personal, political, and social views.

The count of Barcelos, a personal enemy of the Duke of Coimbra ( despite being half-brothers ) eventually became the king's favourite uncle and began a constant struggle for power.

In the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry, he became the Buddha's personal attendant, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and taking the part of interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues.

With the Renaissance, tyrannicide — or assassination for personal or political reasons — became more common again in Western Europe.

The Clintons ' personal and business affairs during the 1980s included transactions that became the basis of the Whitewater investigation that dogged his later presidential administration.

She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

With the Hanoverian accession in Britain onwards, monarchs saw their powers pass further to their ministers, and Royal neutrality in politics became cemented from around the start of the reign of Queen Victoria ( though she had her personal favorites ) and enlargements to the franchise.

This situation became a concern to gym owners because the inconsistencies caused coaches to keep their routines in a constant state of flux, detracting from time that could be better utilized for developing skills and providing personal attention to their athletes.

Later, Darwin became a close personal friend, and Lyell was one of the first scientists to support On the Origin of Species, though he did not subscribe to all its contents.

" With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust — and, later, the Thin White Duke — from his own character offstage.

It became a " powerful instrument of personal and theological transformation both within the Order of Preachers and throughout the wider reaches of Christendom.

The personal relationship between the two men, however, became strained, due to Scheler's legal troubles, and Scheler returned to Munich.

It was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public, and three decades before most people encountered attempts at natural language processing in Internet services like Ask. com or PC help systems such as Microsoft Office Clippy.

Surnames have arisen in cultures with large, concentrated populations where single, personal names for individuals became insufficient to identify them clearly.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

The program's theme music was an instrumental version of " Hooray for Captain Spaulding ", which became increasingly identified as Groucho's personal theme song.

His first biographer Jack Bracelin reports that this was a watershed in Gardner's life, and that a previous academic interest in spiritualism and life after death thereafter became a matter of firm personal belief for him.

However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.

Nasum, who emerged from the Swedish death metal scene, became a popular group, addressing political topics from a personal perspective.

Instead of personal duties, money increasingly became the common means to represent economic value in agriculture.

The personal, improvisatory and creative traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia before the 17th century, when Simon Ushakov's painting became strongly influenced by religious paintings and engravings from Protestant as well as Catholic Europe.

The legacy of the 8086 is enduring in the basic instruction set of today's personal computers and servers ; the 8086 also lent its last two digits to later extended versions of the design, such as the Intel 286 and the Intel 386, all of which eventually became known as the x86 family.

Opium was for him what wandering and moral tale-telling became for the Mariner – the personal shape of repetition compulsion.

A conscientious girl became the secretary of a doctor.

In 1876 Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary.

Later he became secretary of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 1725 he became secretary of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, and served at this post until his death from tuberculosis in 1744.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá soon became his father's secretary and shield.

In 1901, Bishop Montgomery became secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the family returned to London.

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

Pallas became the secretary of the treasury.

Callistus became secretary of justice.

Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.

Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio.

After the war he worked for the agriculture ministry as secretary of the Farmers ' Association and became director of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture in 1927.

At age 16 he helped found and became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, which protested against the monarchist government.

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

Ulbricht became deputy prime minister in 1949 and secretary ( chief executive ) of the Socialist Unity ( Communist ) party in 1950.

Hedwig Potthast, Himmler's young secretary starting in 1936, became his mistress by 1939.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

She had several rather fanatic followers, including Guibert of Gembloux, who wrote frequently to Hildegard and eventually became her secretary after Volmar died in 1173.

Alia succeeded to the presidency and became legal secretary of the APL two days later.

She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.

However, thanks to the successes of Adams ' diplomacy during his previous eight years as secretary of state, most of the foreign policy issues he would have faced had been resolved by the time he became president.

In 1878 he became assistant secretary of state in the Hayes administration.

He became a secretary of the Comintern in 1935, a post he held until its dissolution in 1943.

Prominent Communists who became victims of these purges and were defendants in the Prague Trials included Rudolf Slánský, the party's general secretary, Vlado Clementis ( the Foreign Minister ) and Gustáv Husák ( the leader of an administrative body responsible for Slovakia ), who was dismissed from office for " bourgeois nationalism ".

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.