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    Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was an American government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury...
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  • Notable people with the surname include: Harry J. Anslinger (1892–1975), American government official Leopold Anslinger (1891–1978), German World War I flying...
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  • film's title refers to an article of the same year by U.S. "drug czar" Harry J. Anslinger that appeared in The American Magazine and was reprinted in Reader's...
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    Hedlund plays Harry J. Anslinger in Lee Daniels Billie Holiday Biopic» - October 19, 2020. «Garrett Hedlund Discusses His Role as Harry Anslinger in Hulu’s...
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    act of June 14, 1930, with Harry J. Anslinger appointed as commissioner, a position he held for 32 years, until 1962. Anslinger supported Prohibition and...
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    the United States G-Man Harry J. Anslinger Helen Gandy McCarthyism Summers, Anthony (January 1, 2012). "The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover". The Guardian...
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    parties. The film's title is from a 1937 article by U.S. "drug czar" Harry J. Anslinger. [See prohibition.] bag A package of marijuana. Battle of Maple Tree...
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    the Department of Pensions and National Health. Along with American Harry J. Anslinger, Sharman played a key role in the development of the global drug control...
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    snap back quickly. McCarthy had also become addicted to morphine. Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, became aware of McCarthy's...
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    formation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) in 1930, headed by Harry J. Anslinger as part of the government's broader push to outlaw all recreational...
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  • Billie's sax player, supports her in playing it. In the 1940s, FBN chief Harry J. Anslinger tells agents that Billie is a threat, her song promotes the wrong...
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    Author Martin Booth notes that this etymology was popularized by Harry J. Anslinger in the 1930s, during his campaigns against the drug. However, linguist...
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  • of drugs used in illicit trade or punishment of those responsible. Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, campaigned and lobbied for...
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    and journalist Johann Hari, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics–under Harry J. Anslinger–had been targeting Holiday since at least 1939, when she started to...
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    Union People Martha Meir Allen Harry J. Anslinger Lyman Beecher Al Capone Mickey Duffy Waxey Gordon Texas Guinan Frank Hamer J. Edgar Hoover Clinton N. Howard...
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    and the Jones–Miller Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act of 1922. Harry J. Anslinger was appointed its first commissioner by Secretary of the Treasury...
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  • Union People Martha Meir Allen Harry J. Anslinger Lyman Beecher Al Capone Mickey Duffy Waxey Gordon Texas Guinan Frank Hamer J. Edgar Hoover Clinton N. Howard...
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    placed a tax on the sale of cannabis. The H.R. 6385 act was drafted by Harry Anslinger and introduced by Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, on April...
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    government to expel him. On February 21, 1947, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger notified the Cubans that the US would block all shipment of narcotic...
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    Union People Martha Meir Allen Harry J. Anslinger Lyman Beecher Al Capone Mickey Duffy Waxey Gordon Texas Guinan Frank Hamer J. Edgar Hoover Clinton N. Howard...
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  • addict; racketeer Arnold Rothstein, an early drug trafficker; and Harry J. Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (who had...
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    to a 1954 interview with United States Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger, the cumbersome process of conference and state-by-state ratification...
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  • General Reginald Dyer. A&C Black. ISBN 9781852855758. "Reginald Edward Harry Dyer – the Butcher of Amritsar | Lawrence College Ghora Gali". Sourish Bhattacharyya...
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  • Brewery. In 1830, Edward Abraham Dyer, father of Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer of Jallianwala Bagh massacre, travelled to India and set up India's...
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  • the New York Academy of Medicine. The New York Academy of Medicine. HARRY J. ANSLINGER: The Murderers THE STORY OF THE NARCOTIC GANGS, 1962 The LaGuardia...
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  • 2022. Galliher, John F; Keys, David P; Elsner, Michael. "Lindesmith v. Anslinger: An early government victory in the failed war on drugs". druglibrary...
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  • had already written the first song. The high school is named after Harry J. Anslinger, the first Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, known as...
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    prohibition of cannabis in the United States. Hearst collaborated with Harry J. Anslinger to ban hemp due to the threat that the burgeoning hemp paper industry...
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    Union People Martha Meir Allen Harry J. Anslinger Lyman Beecher Al Capone Mickey Duffy Waxey Gordon Texas Guinan Frank Hamer J. Edgar Hoover Clinton N. Howard...
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