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6 entation of J, Fdgar Hoover for the Gold Medal of the olland Society of New York November 1] 1 Some twenty-five years ago there was graduated from George Was!.inston "University & young man who had earned his way through Law School ty «4 civricnl inb in the Library of Congress. He was educuted in both institutions. When ne wasn't studying his law books he was browsing on the Library stock, induiginy a voricious appetite for all kinds of reading except, curiously enough, detective fietion, in which he has never had any interest. On receiving his law diploma, desnite the fact that the Library job. was paying him more than he could hope to eurn for sure -_ - time as a lawyer, he gave it up for a beginner's post in the United States Denurt t “ment of Justice. There has never been a dull moment in that Department since. There are, cf course, a good many worthy men ir. Fachington who have + been there for ages and ages. ‘You. can readily spot them, ctartiny from either end - of Pennsylvania Avenue; but none will you find who, on the silver enniverse Governnent service, can show more striking achievenente for the Nation!. welfare, re t clearly attritutable to hisFown enerey, resourcefulness,*! and stendfus t devotion __to the commonweal, ° than he «> in fect, he. drs the only head of @ bureétu ir Wao ineton 7 ve oe, sho Las never been called a barguuctity te ts This former Library clex¥iats a celebrated i fisted t would be as _& crime on my part to hang him & lo Ber. dr, rhetorical” Busper se. Tem refLerrins, ne age * as many of you amateur C-men may piretiy, have deduced, te the gent Lena VEO Fac SO ae we 4 ee nee ? generously consented to receive the ucodiade of the. Halland Society this eviring, & pee’ ni a the Director of, ‘the Federal bureau of Wypittectioneh ee Department o: Ju-tice, * “. we Je Edgar Hoover.