The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U. S. government, from orders of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( 1933 – 45 ), like his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, was an ardent conservationist.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >

Franklin Delano López was elected Chairman of the New Democratic Party of Puerto Rico by the direct votes of 374, 000 American citizens residing on the Island.

Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

The first Presidential candidate to choose his Vice Presidential candidate was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940.

The Ballroom closed its doors in 1958, and the building in which it was housed was torn down and replaced with a housing complex named Delano Village.

John Collier, who was appointed Commissioner of what is now called the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had become convinced that federal Indian policies needed to be changed to correct injustices.

Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the WPA was funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935.

It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's " Great Plains Shelterbelt " WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30, 233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for.

According to Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Stein was a lifelong Republican and vocal critic of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal.

As an anecdote, one of the more notable attacks both on the concept of lebensraum, and on Hitler, was made in a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in which he stated that " There is not enough lebensraum on this planet for both God and Hitler.

The cropduster sequence, meant to take place in northern Indiana, was shot on location on Garces Highway ( 155 ) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California ().

His brother, David Delano Glover, a Methodist, was a state representative in the 1907 session and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1935, having been unseated in 1934 by Grant County native John Little McClellan who at the time was practicing law in Camden.

The Delano, California | Delano Transmitting Station, which used a very large curtain array, was closed in October 2007.

Wall Street financier Franklin Delano, uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was president of the railroad at the time.

David Delano Glover ( January 18, 1868-April 5, 1952 ) was born and attended public school in Prattsville.

When that building ( which has long since been demolished ) outgrew its space, it was replaced by a new building built on land donated by Warren Delano of the Delano family with funds donated by his daughter, Annie Delano-Hitch.

In addition, Danny O ' Halloran replaced Edmonston as the group's drummer a few months later, and it was this lineup of Lashley, Gurley, Delano, and O ' Halloran which won the WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble that year.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Although the Republican Party and Democratic Party chapters in Puerto Rico have selected voting delegates to the national nominating conventions since the early 1900s, public interest in these processes heightened as a result of the efforts of a group of Democratic statehooders led by Franklin Delano López in 1976 to elect delegates supporting former Georgia Gov.

In the first internal primary of a National political party, the new slate of statehooders, headed by Franklin Delano López took control of the local Democratic party chapter.

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Remarks from 1937 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR on " natural capital " and " balancing the budget of our resources "

Despite efforts by Borough President Hulan Jack and others to save it, the Savoy and the nearby Cotton Club were demolished for the construction of a housing complex, Bethune Towers / Delano Village.

He then meets John Constantine in Hellblazer # 19, written by Jamie Delano, leading into the latter's guest appearance in issue # 3.

* Hugh S. Delano ( born 1933 ), Sports journalist for the New York Post and author honored by induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award.

Sitting on the Nanticoke Indian path from the Choptank Indian " Fort ", this same route placed the community at the near center of commercial crossroads of the Eastern Shore of Maryland until the 1930s and the opening of the " Governor Emerson C. Harrington Bridge " in Cambridge in 1935 with its dedication by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Remarks by Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR on a balanced budget on 1937 visit to Havre

Totally inadequate to house the 10, 000-plus employees, Fort Peck was soon joined by numerous shanty towns, including Wheeler, New Deal, Delano Heights, and Park Grove.

Manchester, dubbed Delano, was the setting for his first bestseller, Chiefs, and most of his subsequent books have a character who comes from there.

He sold in a short time to Delano & Sanders, who operated it more extensively, and in 1841, attached a grist mill, or more properly a corn cracker.

* John Cooke, the last surviving male Pilgrim from the 1620 voyage to found the Plymouth colony ( and who was, with Thomas Delano, one of the original buyers of the land from the Wampanoags )

Garth Ennis ( Hellblazer ) and Jamie Delano ( Animal Man ) were two other launch authors who went on to great success with Vertigo and elsewhere.

In the summer of 1944 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term as President of the United States and Gray ( who had little love for Roosevelt ) killed off Warbucks in a month-long sequence of sentimental pathos.

Rumor was that Presidient Grant was pressured by Secretary of Interior Columbus Delano, who sympathized with Collis P. Huntington and Jay Gould, had demanded Akerman's resignation.

From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, who was dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute in Fort Valley, Georgia, and who would later become an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This union changed from a workers ' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the NFWA went out on strike in support of the mostly Filipino farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California who had previously initiated a grape strike on September 8, 1965.

The pavilion's architects were William Adams Delano, who also designed the Grand Central Art Galleries, and Chester Holmes Aldrich.

The reservoir is called Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake, named after the United States President who presided over the authorization and completion of the dam.

Animal Man placed Morrison at the head of the so-called " Brit Wave " invasion of American comics, along with such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano and Alan Moore ( who had launched the ' invasion ' with his work on Swamp Thing ).< ref name =" vert-ency ">

Several decades later, a John Delano Roosevelt is mentioned among the six highly regarded reformers who revise the US Constitution and institute the new regime seen in 2086.

Finally, after persistent lobbying from Ohioans including Interior Secretary Columbus Delano, on January 19, 1874, Grant nominated the little-known Waite who learned of his nomination by a telegram.

Liberal Party candidates played the role of spoiler by being the possible cause of the defeat of Democrat Frank D. O ' Connor in the race for governor in 1966 by naming Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. as its candidate in the race against incumbent Nelson Rockefeller ; and again in 1980 when it endorsed Javits ( who had lost in the Republican primary for United States senator to Al D ' Amato ).

Friends referred him for help to the powerful Lehman family of New York, who got him an appointment with Harry Hopkins, the advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

At the top of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who lost their lives during World War I.

In 1924 he invited his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( who had recently contracted a paralytic illness ) to visit the 90 degree Fahrenheit springs there, which Roosevelt eventually purchased and turned into the Little White House and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, expanding it from a limited rehab center into a full-service center.

However, upon learning of the planned protest, the colonial governor of Puerto Rico at the time, General Blanton Winship ( who had been appointed by US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt ) demanded the immediate withdrawal of the permits.

He was the son of James Roosevelt Roosevelt, known as " Rosey ", who was the much older half-brother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Straus family had several influential members including Straus's grandson Roger W. Straus, Jr., who started the publishing company of Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; his brother, Isidor Straus, who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912, served as a representative from New York City's 15th District, and was co-owner of the department store R. H. Macy & Co. along with another brother Nathan ; and nephew Jesse Isidor Straus, confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.