Word: want
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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...
...Admits Pundit Lippmann: "I never knew a President or heard of one who didn't want to be re-elected until I heard of James K. Polk. I stand corrected...
...session-end of the last Congress, leaders in both parties pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind...
...China's Pennsylvania (see map). The province is watered by tributaries of the Yellow River, which divides Shansi from Shensi. Shansi's rough mountains are heavy with anthracite and iron, and because lack of communications has so far meant limited exploitation, the coal-poor, iron-hungry Japanese want it more than any other inland province. The Chinese, who realize that losing it means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding cavalry of General Ma Chan-shan...
Most of the actors were too weary to have any feeling of nervousness about the opening tonight. Tru so darn tired now all I want to do is like down and go to sleep mingled one of them...