Delano

[duh-ley-noh]

noun

1. a city in S California.

Example Sentences

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman regularly impounded funds during World War II. Even Dwight Eisenhower, a fiscal conservative, quietly held back highway funding when inflation soared.

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Printed on heavy stock in Delano, Calif., where the UFW was headquartered, the poster shows pinholes in its corners and chipped edges — suggesting it was once tacked up in a field office or waved at a protest.

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Rodriguez read a letter from Papa Lito, from Wilmington, now in Delano.

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Played by Matthew Modine, Bush was a key advisor to Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman during and after the war.

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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, all the historic sites, like the Civil War and Revolutionary War battlefields, were under the management of the War Department.

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