Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With deliberation he chose the fourth anniversary of his taking office to issue his South Dakota statement. He "chose" early enough to give the G. O. P. a chance to select his successor. He had, he said, no feeling that the no-third-term tradition applied to him, as he had come up from the vice presidency and he was sure that the country shared his opinion. But ten years in the White House was too long a strain. Wrote Mr. Coolidge...
...difficult to conceive how one man can successfully serve the country for a term [as President] of more than eight years...
...latter part of the administrations of two-term Presidents, he thought, showed "very little in the way of constructive accomplishment" and has "often been clouded with grave disappointments." These facts, coupled with his own desire, Mr. Coolidge gave as his reasons for retirement...
...author in the House of Representatives, Congressman Gale H. Stalker of New York, who was being deprived of his share of the credit. In fact the Stalker Bill, he said, had been introduced nine days before the Jones Bill. Insisted Mr. Jones: "I hope the proper term will be used in referring to this . . . legislation and it will be known as the Jones-Stalker...
...Springfield, Mass., District Court last week, one Thomas McGregor announced that he had been drunk for the full six months of a term he had just served in Hampden County Jail. He said he drank the denatured alcohol used for shellac in the prison workshop...