Show G wn man hoover stans scans career has served bureau for past 25 years WASHING washington TON D C it was 25 years ago that john E H hoover a librarian turned lawyer too took command of a run down police force whose officers could neither make arrests nor carry guns in a quarter century mt much ich 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 national characteristic ic and as a big time so source of racket money have flow flowered ered and faded the careers of OM machine gun kelly dillinger and karpis have boomed in the news headlines and ended at morgue find and prison gates and along the way john E has become J edgar and tho the sad sack police force of may 10 1924 has blossomed into the pride of a nation which once maintained that low law enforcement was a strictly local problem and no business of bureaucrats in honor of his silver anniversary IS as head man of tho the federal bureau of investigation director hoover rev reviewed lowed the FBI story and told how it all began it is a story of politics go good od 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 dollar publicity job for the FBI above all it is the biographical tole tale of an unimportant f federal e d era I 1 employed who took an unimportant appointment in 1024 1924 and without changing jobs has become one of rind and t the h e nations most potent figures |