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The American dramatist Owen Gould Davis (1874-1956) was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Icebound". Davis authored hundreds of plays as well as scripts for radio and film and also wrote for the Police gazette under the pseudonym of Ike Swift. His first play "Through the Breakers" opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1897 and a subsequent play "Reaping the Whirlwind" opened on Broadway in 1900. Though he penned most of his plays either under his own name or under the pseudonym of John Oliver, he also made use of several other pseudonyms including Martin Hurley, Arthur J. Lamb, Walter Lawrence, and Robert Wayne.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Good .
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