Extra Credit Questions

[AussieMick]

Gene, he was very much involved in providing advice to the federal government service during the Civil War.

It may help to say that he was opposed to the British free-trade system.

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Before the Civil War he worked as a journalist. On the same newspaper was a journalist of foreign extraction ... he and the person in the picture had conflicting opinions but there was some mutual respect.

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Maybe ... you could guess that 'word' I was interested in. The word that is appearing in the financial headlines.

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Strangely enough, he "supported" the Russians in their fight against Britain ... in the Crimea.