It was Greg Lewis, a retired teacher and long-time social studies department chairman at Columbus East High School. He had portrayed a U.S. president for 24 years straight beginning in 1997, ...

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Southwestern PA has seen some of the most notable moments in US organizing. Will DC's policy shifts write a new chapter?

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President Harry ... crews during World War I. After many postings around the world, he was promoted through the ranks and was a brigadier general when the U.S. entered World War II in 1941.