Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: Prior to 1931, Anslinger was assistent U.S. Commissioner of Prohibition. Anslinger was hand -picked to head the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics by his uncle -in-law, Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasure under President Herbert Hoover. Deep in the throes of the Depression, Congress began to examine budgetary requirements from all federal agencies, and the Bureau of Narcotics was no exception. To maintain virility. Anslinger had to prove that their was a new drug menace threatening the
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