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This is Your FBI: Success Story
This is Your FBI · March 23, 1951 · 29 min · 4,424 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 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're 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.
The subject of our FBI file, Racketary, its title, Success Story. There are no debts to which the criminal will not sink. For example, within the past month, a racket was uncovered where mothers of servicemen men in Korea were being asked by a swindler for money to pay for their son's passage home.
In another case, a man was arrested on a charge of booking horse bets of $0.10 and up, made by high school boys with their lunch money. Despite the depravity of their acts, though, these men are run-of-the-mill criminals.
One of the more successful lawbreakers, the wealthy ones, the ones who have worked their way up the social ladder to the point where they live in good neighborhoods, among decent citizens, to the point where everything about them is the same as the decent persons.
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