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This is Your FBI: The Henpecked Swindler

This is Your FBI · May 2, 1947 · 29 min · 4,517 words

The transcript of “The Henpecked Swindler”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast May 2, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI This is your FBI The Official Broadcast from the Files of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Presented as a Public Service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community As anyone ever phoned you to check up on the radio program you've got tuned in, it happens like this

Yes? This is the Radio Checking Bureau. Is your radio turned on now? Why, yes it is. What program are you listening to, please? It's, this is your FBI, just starting. Do you know who sponsors that program?

Oh sure I do. It's my good friend, the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The Equitable Society has a special life insurance plan for men and women on the way up. That's one great life insurance plan, so naturally I know that this is your FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society.

And in just 15 minutes, I'll give full information about the equitable society's plan for men and women on the way up. Tonight's FBI file, the Hennepack Swindler. There is nothing remarkable about the fact that there are various classes of criminals.

Because in any group of 6 million people, there would have to be different shadings of character and mentality. Rated on top for bank robbers, mob leaders, and killers, they are in the business of crime, and they engage in their work for profit.

Their standing in the criminal community depends almost entirely on their degree of success. But there is one type of criminal to whom everyone else in the crime world looks up, because he or she makes us living by his brains.

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