Director and expresses his intolerance of individuality. Many times the type of control that Hoover exercised created a tension between the men in the field and the men in Washington, but they did as they were told as any insubordination could quickly end their career. This may have been somewhat of an extreme, but Hoover commanded respect and order in the Bureau.There was an established stability in the Bureau now, but Hoover wanted to use his new creation in a more open environment. The beginning of this came in the form of the Dyer Act being upheld by the Supreme Court in 1925. This allowed the Bureau to help police interstate traffic of stolen cars. While most cars were recovered by local authorities, Hoover also took credit because of the information exchange that they had taken part in. This gave Hoover more leverage when it was budgeting time in Congress. He of course used many of his contacts to try and increase it each time.Although little else occurred within the next several years, it did seem that the public opinion was swaying to the belief that the nation was being overridden by crime. For this reason some began looking towards the federal government for help in the rising crime, although not much else could be done until the election of a new administration.Just before the election of Herbert Hoover and the oncoming depression, Hoover lost his right hand man Associate Director Frank Baughman to marriage. (Married men were not acceptable in the Bureau because they could not always be at the beckon call of the Director) His replacement was Clyde Tolston who had been an aide to the Secretary of War. He was a clean-cut athletic man with the attitude that Hoover looked for in his agents. It was said he was no stranger to women, but he also realized the extent that a wife could be cumbersome. He was willing to be a subordinate to Hoover's ambitions and he would be for the rest of his life. Their relationship was not merely of...
