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Hoover was appointed the bureau's assistant director in 1921 largely on the basis of his work as the supervisor of the department's alien registration section and later as the head of the general intelligence division under Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. In 1924 when he was elevated to acting director by the subsequent attorney general and future chief justice Harlan Fiske Stone, he had developed a reputation for his devotion to his work and as a stickler for efficiency and order. The bureau's powers, however, would not be substantially expanded until 1934, the year before it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Until that time Hoover and his agents had to be content with the collection of data and the pursuit of interstate car thieves. Many of the resources that would be used so effectively in the future to create the bureau's reputation were sharpened during these...
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