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This is Your FBI: The Runaway Dancer
This is Your FBI · November 14, 1947 · 29 min · 4,641 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 representatives in your community Now let me read a telegram to the Equitable Life Assurance Society from St. Louis I quote
Dear Equitable, at discussion group meeting last Wednesday, your Equitable Society commercials were voted best on the air. No high-pressure selling, lots of facts and helpful information. Keep it up. Well, we are. Tonight Equitable Society commercial will deal with a type of insurance that's important in the lives of one out of every three Americans. Yet most
of you people who have it know almost nothing about it. So listen carefully in just 14 minutes to a message on group insurance from the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Tonight's FBI file, the runaway dancer.
The Earth BI makes periodic studies of the field of crime in an effort to be better prepared to apprehend every criminal possible. And from each of those studies, certain facts are to do. One of those facts is that there are no two criminals exactly alike, like, even as there are no two decent law-abiding citizens who are exactly alike.
Yet there is at least one common characteristic among all criminals who commit crimes as a business, who try to make their living by stealing, lying, cheating, or killing. That common denominator is brutality. Brutality born of a constant effort is take what rightfully belongs to someone else.
which has always accompanied every evidence of the lust that helps make some men criminal the consuming lust for power the night's fire opens and a shabby second floor dance hall located in the large western cities is there in the evening one of the hostesses is seated at the corner table as another hostess approaches
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