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...Washington few die and none resign, if they can possibly avoid it. "Going Washington" is a disease as definite as "going Hollywood." Czars who have been superseded or are being circumvented cling on desperately, loth to give up their places on the fringe of the spotlight...
...scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...
Franklin Roosevelt quickly invited the four sponsors to a White House conference, where the resolution was discussed with Harry Hopkins and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost at once to stop the resolution's introduction. This was of no avail -Joe Ball has a hard jaw. While the resolution could never bind the Senate's vote on specific details of a peace treaty, it would be, if passed by a two-thirds majority, definite progress...
...sunshine warmed the Mayor's crusade last week. When he heard that the Parent-Teacher Association of Public Schoo! 99 was conducting a raffle for a $25 war bond, he quickly stopped it. The Parent-Teacher Association was loth to move to New Jersey or get a court order, so his ruling stuck...
When a pitcher seems well on the way toward hurling a no-hit game, players and fans go to outlandish lengths to avoid mentioning it. They keep fingers crossed and pretend nothing unusual is occurring. It is an old superstition; they are loth to do anything that might change luck...