Word: term
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your quotation of Lippmann (TIME, Nov. 27, p. 13), ". . . there never was a President who did not want to be elected for a second term . . ." needs correction...
...have no doubt both Mr. Benton and Mr. Calhoun apprehend that I may be a candidate for reelection, for which there is not the slightest foundation My mind has been made up from the time I accepted the Baltimore nomination, and is still so, to serve but one term and not to be a candidate for reelection...
Tuesday, 2nd November, 1847-". . I have now passed through two-thirds of my Presidential term, and most heartily wish that the remaining third was over, for I am sincerely desirous to have the enjoyment of retirement in private life...
...become my duty to yield.". . . They urged also the condition of the country being engaged in a foreign [Mexican] war, and their conviction that I would be the strongest man of the party. I still adhered to my often expressed determination to retire at the close of my present term...
Tuesday, 13th February, 1849-". . . I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will again become a sovereign...