This is Your FBI: The Soybean Shakedown

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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

A shrewd psychologist who has had contacts with numerous leaders of American business Once remarked, success and self-confidence go hand in hand. Men who have a strong conviction that they are going to succeed are the ones that rise to the top in every field.

For people of this type, people who have this feeling of certainty about themselves, the equitable life-assurance society has created its famous life insurance plan for men and women on the way up. Do those words describe you?

Then you'll be interested in about 14 minutes. When I give full details of the equitable plan for men and women on the way up. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, kidnapping. It's titled, The Soybean Shakedown.

In tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, you will meet two typical American racketeers. For a quick lesson in crime prevention, Let's take a brief look at the backgrounds of these two hootlins.

By what is not a nod coincidence? Both men grew up in what are known to social workers as broken homes, in homes which had been deserted by the father. During the critical years of adolescence, every growing boy needs what psychologists call an ego ideal.

In other words, a grown man on whom he can pattern his conduct, someone to admire and hero worship. With no father to play this role in his life, a youth is always in greater danger of falling under corrupting influences. This is the real tragedy of divorce. This is what every father in tonight's audience who may be thinking of divorce should bear in mind.