Show 6 man hoover scans career has served bureau for past post 25 years washington D C it was 25 years yearb ars ago that john E hoover a librarian turned lawyer took command of a run down police force whose officers could neither make arrests nor carry guns in a quarter century much has happened americas criminal glossary has been swelled by such terms as G man G heat and public enemy the era of gang warfare as a as a big time 1 source of ol 4 racket rocket money have flowered and faded the careers of machine gun kelly dillinger DUll nger and karpis karph nave have boomed in the news headlines and ended at morgue and prison gates and along the way john E has become J edgar and the mad sad ad sack police force of may 10 am has blossomed into the pride of a nation which once maintained shat that low enforcement was a y local problem and no business of f bureaucrats in honor of his silver anniversary as head man of the federal bureau of investigation director hoover reviewed the FBI story lind and told how it all began it Is a story of politics good and bad of an era that created a new enforcement approach and of a criminal punk with a machine gun fand and a smart wife who did a million dollar publicity job for tor the FBI above all it is the biographical tale talc of on an unimportant federal employed who took on an unimportant I 1 appointment m in ui 1924 laft and tiiu without changing jobs has become one of woi in and t the h a nations nann nt nn most potent figures |