Word: osten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichssportblatt (Reich Sport Paper) suddenly demanded last week that the prize fight between the U. S. Negro and German Max Schmeling, scheduled for New York City in June, be stringently boycotted by Nazi fight fans. In an essay titled, "Is That Necessary?" Nazi Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten wrote: "We cannot feel much enthusiasm for the plan to arrange an excursion to the Max Schmeling-Joe Louis boxing match. Although such a trip in itself might be agreeable, it would suit us better if the Schmeling-Louis fight had not been chosen as the reason for making...
...Drang N. Osten, the promising young author who published "Big Man on Campus" in 1934 has turned to the college enviroment again as the background for a tender and beautiful novel, dealing with a highly emotional graduate student in a woman's college who had to use the museum and library of a neighboring male institution for her research. More fundamentally, however, Mr. Osten has faced squarely the problem which Leap Year presents to young women one time in every four years...
...passages of lyric beauty he describes the tender scenes on the bench before the ivy covered library, and with equal power, the metropolitan night life that the heroine finds in the company of the irrepressible Reggie. The conclusion is the only possible one for such a situation and Osten presents it steruly, fiercely, intensely-suicide...
...accepted this nebulous idea can be perceived in the enthusiasm with which groups of healthy young Germans roll down practice slopes in the effort to learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning under Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten, has prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, and in the extraordinary career of one of Germany's most celebrated cinemactresses. If President Hoover had made Jean Harlow a major functionary in the Olympic Games of 1932, it would have been explicable only as a tribute to the superhuman shrewdness...
...Olympic Committee stated that "with the consent of his government", he was authorized to declare: 1) "The German Olympic Committee has delegated the mandate that has been entrusted to it to a special organizing committee composed of Dr. Lewald, Dr. Sham, the mayor of Berlin and Captain Von Tschammer-Osten, Reichssport Kommissar." Since that time, Dr. Lewald has been unable to make a statement to the press without first getting permission from the representative of the Nazi government, Von Tschammer-Osten. Very plainly, the German Olympic Committee has abdicated its function for the sake of allowing the Nazi party...