Editing J. Edgar Hoover (section)

===War Emergency Division===
Immediately after getting his [[LL.M.]] degree, Hoover was hired by the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] to work in the War Emergency Division.<ref name="Gentry p. 68">
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</ref> He accepted the clerkship on July 27, 1917, aged 22. The job paid $990 a year (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|990|1917|r=-2}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}} dollars) and was exempt from the draft.<ref name="Gentry p. 68" /> Hoover soon became the head of the Division's Alien Enemy Bureau, authorized by President [[Woodrow Wilson]] at the beginning of [[World War I]] to arrest and jail allegedly disloyal foreigners without trial.<ref name="Weiner-ch1" /> He received additional authority from the [[Espionage Act of 1917|1917 Espionage Act]]. Out of a list of 1,400 suspicious Germans living in the U.S., the Bureau arrested 98 and designated 1,172 as arrestable.<ref name="Weiner-ch3" />