Posted on 05/13/2016 12:39:27 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, I'm a big Trump supporter and I am glad that Seldon Adelson ANNOUNCED in the Washington Post that he also supports Trump. However, one line from Adelson's announcement has me really perplexed:
Despite being the grandson of a Welsh coal miner and the son of a Boston cab driver, I’ve had the remarkable experience of being part of almost 50 different businesses in my more than 70-year business career.
A Welsh coal miner? Really? This is as perplexing as if Adelson had announced that he was the grandson of a Samurai warrior.
He “identifies” as a transgendered coal miners daughter. Get with it!
He sings a mean tenor “Men of Harlech.”
If he was Scottish, it would be Tonkin Golf.
Stranger things have happened. For example, Lefty “Casino” Rosenthal was actually Swedish. Adopted at birth which accounts for his name.
I have Welsh ancestors and they definately were coal miners in the northeastern part of PA. There was plenty of coal mining in the old country too.
Wales ain’t England. Maybe not as hot and bothered as the Scots or the Irish but the Welsh are a pretty tough lot. Certainly not as refined as English.
Nowadays, the corporate casino bean counters look to squeeze every cent including what I read today about a Las Vegas casino planning to CHARGE for parking space.
BRING BACK THE MOB!!!
Good point about the mob treating customers well !
Las Vegas was the Rat Pack's home away from home. They would perform, play golf, party, gamble, and live life in the fast lane every day they were in town. As a group, they filmed 2 movies: Ocean's 11 and Sergeants 3. They took their stage act to the Sands Copa Room and performed to enthusiastic crowds and overwhelming applause. The price of a ticket to see the show, which included dinner and 2 drinks, was $5.95 per person. These guys were cool, they were happening, and they had a chemistry that became legendary.
His mother is Sissy Spacek.
There is a gulf between being a Tonkin and a miner.
Oh come out and say it. How many Jewish coal miners were there in Wales 100 years ago?
Somewhere between nil and none?
Based on the names in the record, it seems that Adelsons maternal grandpa probably wasn’t Jewish, Tonkin/Tonken apparently being a Cornish/Welsh name.
When Saturday rolled around, he was too tired for synagogue.
“His mother’s maiden name was Tonkin,which is Welch.”
Welsh.
“(I mean, yeah, I presumed he was Jewish. But you combine the Jewish stereotype for loving diamonds, with the Welsh stereotype of never wanting to pay for someone, and SOME Welsh guy must’ve figured if he got into coal mines, he’d find his own diamond mine.)”
He’s Jewish.
One of my progenitors was a soldier from Kiev. So?
Although rough and dangerous work, coal mining drew eager migrants to Wales, including Jews. For Adelson, having a grandfather who did hard manual work means that his own long, varied, and outstandingly successful business career is all the more remarkable.
This year marks the 50-year anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster which pretty much killed off mining in Wales.
BTW, film was originally to be filmed in Wales in color but because of WWII it was filmed in b&w in Malibu because not much green in Malibu.
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