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Show 6-Man Hoover Scans Cereer that law enforcement was a strictly strict-ly local problem and no business of Washington's bureaucrats. In honor of his silver anniversary anniver-sary as head man of the federal bureau of investigation, director Hoover reviewed the FBI story 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 and a smart wife who did a million mil-lion dollar publicity job for the FBI. Above all it is the biographical biographi-cal tale of an unimportant federal employe who took an unimportant appointment in 1924, and, without changing jobs, has become one of Washington's and the nation's most potent figures. x Has Served Bureau For Past 25 Years WASHINGTON, D. C It was 25 years 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. America's criminal glossary has been swelled by such terms as "G-man," "G-heat" and "public enemy." The era of gang warfare as a national characteristic and kidnaping as a big time source of racket money have flowered and faded. The careers of "Machine Gun" Kelly, Dillinger and Karpis have boomed in the news headlines head-lines and ended at morgue and prison gates. And along the way, "John E." has become "J. Edgar" and the sad sack police force of May 10, 1924, has blossomed into the pride of a nation which once maintained Altitudes in Idaho Idaho altitudes range from 708 feet to 12,655 feet, which is the height of the summit of Mt. Borah in the Sawtooths. |