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This Week in History: Abolitionist targets politicians
By Frank Tomaino
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A determined Gerrit Smith – wealthy, well-known abolitionist born and bred in Utica – comes out swinging, taking his fight against the evils of slavery to the polling place.
Smith, president and one of the founders of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, meets with members at a session in Utica and together they adopt a resolution that compels political candidates to make known their attitude toward slavery. Smith says that candidates who favor the immediate abolition of slavery can count on the support of the thousands of society members. Wishy-washy candidates not committed fully to the abolition movement will be opposed vigorously by the society.
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There was always something rather cosy and cup-of-tea-ish about Ealing comedies and this 1949 comedy about two Welsh colliers who win a £200 newspaper contest price plus a trip to London to watch the England vs. Wales rugby match at Twickenham Stadium is no exception.
On the whole the kind of people who inhabit these films no longer exist if indeed they ever did in these immediate post-war films. Here we have two Welsh brothers, David Dai Number 9 Jones (Donald Houston) and Thomas Twm Jones (Meredith Edwards) winning a contest run by the fictitious London newspaper The Echo - the prize being a hundred quid each and coveted tickets for a Wales vs. England rugby match at Twickenham. The lads in question have the misfortune (not that they see it that way) to live in a little Welsh Colliery town with an unpronounceable name (obviously there will be jokes a-plenty arising from this) and work as you would expect down the mine . They are actually brought up from the pit
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