Word: unthankful
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...Secretary George B. Ward blandly informed his Senate inquisitors: "I haven't kept records because I've been expecting an investigation like this for three or four years." One of the biggest expenditures last year was $8,000 for "expenses" paid to a deputy sheriff named Ben Unthank, regularly on the Association payroll at $150 per month. Secretary Ward professed total ignorance of what Deputy Unthank did with the money...
...Deputy Unthank could not be questioned, having disappeared some weeks ago, but many a witness was ready & eager to tell where his "expense money" went...
After a peg-legged, 73-year-old union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...