The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

During this time, Capone was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio, whom he came to regard as a mentor.

Capone was recruited for Chicago by Johnny Torrio, his Five Points Gang mentor.

As a Raider assistant, Walsh was trained in the vertical passing offense favored by Al Davis, putting Walsh in Davis's mentor Sid Gillman's coaching tree.

( He was named after Dave Brubeck's mentor Darius Milhaud.

The Elector of Bavaria was Eugene's early mentor before becoming his opponent in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his grand-nephew, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and later as a mentor —" Honorary Grandfather " and " Honorary Grandson ", they fondly called each other according to the Jonathan Dimbleby biography of the Prince — though according to both the Ziegler biography of Mountbatten and the Dimbleby biography of the Prince, the results may have been mixed.

The latter was replaced by Hal Lanier who, like his manager mentor in St. Louis, Whitey Herzog, had a hard-nosed approach to managing and espoused a playing style that focused on pitching, defense, and speed rather than home runs to win games.

Hawks considered himself her protector and mentor, and Bogart was usurping that role.

His most important mentor at the University was Henry Schultz who was an econometrician and mathematical economist.

Unfortunately, he also witnessed his mentor, Professor Xavier, " killed " by Bishop's bullet that was not meant for him.

In 1958, Rau and his political mentor, Gustav Heinemann, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), where he was active in the Wuppertal chapter.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

Also according to Seldon, the formative political influence on Major was Jean Kierans, a divorcée 13 years his elder, who became his political mentor and his lover, too.

During his presidency James K. Polk was known as " Young Hickory ", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump " for his speaking skills.

That mentor was Saionji.

In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.

Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.

In later life, Mead was a mentor to many young anthropologists and sociologists, including Jean Houston.

Among other changes, its young hero was given a newly-invented aristocratic mentor ( played by Granger ), while the role of the working class Elzevir Block was minimized.

It was at this point in his career that he struck a close bond with his leader, mentor and one time business partner, the authoritative captain Arjuna Ranatunga.

There are few sources on Ole Rømer until his immatriculation in 1662 at the University of Copenhagen, at which his mentor was Rasmus Bartholin who published his discovery of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar ( calcite ) in 1668, while Rømer was living in his home.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.