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This Is Your FBI: The Flop House Frame-Up

This Is Your FBI · September 15, 1950 · 29 min · 4,195 words

The transcript of “The Flop House Frame-Up”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast September 15, 1950. 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 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.

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Tonight's FBI file, the Fluff House, frame up! Adversity has different effects on different people. Some have the moral stamina to conquer their personal misfortunes, and almost to turn them to their advantage.

Vaitovan, for example, became deaf in the midst of his career as a composer. Instead of losing heart, he explained that now he would no longer be bothered by outside noises, and his last works are considered by the experts to be his best.

In our own time, we have seen a Helen Keller prove that being a blind death-mute is not an automatic sentence to oblivion. The list of these men and women, the ones who have overcome their adversities and gone on to establish themselves as entities, is endless.

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