Bert Kalmar Quotes
I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!
Kalmar, Bert, and Harry Ruby, screenwriters. Duck Soup. Directed by Leo McCarey, Paramount Pictures, 1933.
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Bert Kalmar was an American lyricist, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.