Word: hobe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wendell Willkie flew from Hobe Sound, Fla. for a Manhattan conference, attended the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where he delivered the principal off-the-record address to an enthusiastic audience, returned to Manhattan to say his say to the ex-Willkie Club members: "I have a tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on. ... One of the difficulties in American public life has been its failure to call its ablest and best men in public service. ... I hope that as a result of the Willkie Club movement you will develop men and women...
Died. Engebreth H. Hobe, 80, longtime (49 years) consul for Norway in the U. S. Northwest; after long illness; in St. Paul. News of Germany's invasion of his country was never told...