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This is Your FBI: The Gullible Groom

This is Your FBI · November 7, 1947 · 29 min · 4,963 words

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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 Investigation Presented as a Public Service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

If you're a regular listener to this Equitable Society program, you've probably noticed this about the commercial messages. There's no high-pressure selling. Each equitable society message is designed to help you, to give you expert advice on home and family security, to keep you abreast of the latest development in life insurance.

For instance, tonight our equitable society message deals with a type of insurance most people know little about, yet it's important in the lives of one out of three Americans. So in 14 minutes listen carefully for interesting information on group insurance from the equitable life-assurance society. Tonight's FBI file, the gullible groom. There has never been a time

in the long history of the nation when there was so much money in circulation as there is at the present time. And while you have that situation, it is axiomatic that you will also have a certain proportion of the population trying to get their hands on some of that money illegally. Some criminals will take a gun and start the highways, robbing stores or guests

stations or people in parked automobiles. Others will break into home, steal whatever is available, and convert the loot into money through the use of a fence. But there is one special brand of criminal to whom these days are the days of milk and honey.

To whom prosperity presents a personal challenge. These stalks is prey carefully and makes elaborate plans to separate the victim from his will. This criminal does not use force. He uses cunning. He is the confidence man.

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