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...Corporal Charles F. Pendleton, 21, of Fort Worth, Texas, who delivered devastating fire during an attack, cradling his machine gun on his knee. He hurled hand grenades back at the enemy, swung his machine gun in great arcs, was critically wounded but continued to fight. When his machine gun was knocked out by a grenade, he picked up a carbine and fought on. The next morning 37 enemy dead were counted around Corporal Pendleton's position...
...AUSTIN PENDLETON...
...Coffin broke Dartmouth's backstroke record down at Princeton and, with Phil Pendleton, may surprise the varsity's All-American, Don Mulvey. Off the board Dartmouth has Jim Venman and Tuck Creamer, which means the Crimson divers will have to be good...
...Government services grew more important and more complex, protests arose against the quality of public employees produced by the patronage system. After 20 years of agitation, the Pendleton Act of 1883 established a merit system of appointment for some Government employees. Steadily, but very slowly, the merit system spread within the U.S. Government. Its next sensational gain was made under Theodore Roosevelt, but even at the end of his Administration, little more than 60% of federal civilian employees had civil-service protection. Herbert Hoover extended it further until at the end of his term about 80% of employees were covered...
...George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader...