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A under Tolman, Division B under Roger Adams (replacing Conant), Divi- 

 sion C under Jewett, and Division D under Compton. Aside from approving 

 the subdivisions, the administrative order conferred upon the Chairman of 

 the NDRC the duties and powers of the Director in the absence or disability 

 of the Director. It further placed the Executive Secretary in charge of ad- 

 ministrative affairs and established him as the contracting officer for the 

 agency subject to all the limitations and restrictions applicable to acts of the 

 Director. 



Administrative Order No. 2 of September 24, 1942, v^hich superseded 

 Order No. i, reaffirmed the principal subdivisions established in the earlier 

 order. In addition, it specifically authorized the Chairmen of the National 

 Defense Research Committee and the Committee on Medical Research to 

 discharge such duties and to exercise such powers of the Director in the 

 field of the respective committees as might be delegated to them from time 

 to time by the Director; and further provided that each might delegate any 

 of his powers or duties as Chairman to such assistant as he might desig- 

 nate with the approval of the Director. It also extended the authority of the 

 Executive Secretary as contracting officer and authorized him to delegate 

 any of his powers or duties to such assistant as he might designate with the 

 approval of the Director. On the chart which accompanied the order Caryl 

 P. Haskins (physicist, Haskins Laboratories) replaced Wilson as Senior 

 Liaison Officer, Wilson having returned to his old post as Executive Assist- 

 ant to Bush. 



Administrative Order No. 3, dated August 21, 1943, was designed to 

 supersede Order No. 2. It repeated the substance of the earlier order, substi- 

 tuted Franklin S. Cooper (physicist, Haskins Laboratories) for Haskins as 

 Senior Liaison Officer, and established a new principal subdivision, the 

 Scientific Personnel Office with John V. L. Hogan (radio engineer) as its 

 head with the title of Special Assistant to the Director. The new office had 

 as its principal duties (i) handling the relationship between OSRD and other 

 governmental agencies with respect to scientific personnel; and (2) dealing 

 with the problems relating to scientific personnel employed by or associated 

 with OSRD or its contractors, particularly problems in connection with 

 policies and procedures relating to the evaluation, training, allocation, com- 

 pensation and requests for deferment by the Selective Service System of such 

 scientific personnel. The head of the Scientific Personnel Office was author- 

 ized to delegate any of his powers or duties to such assistant as he might 

 designate with the approval of the Director. There is some question as to 

 whether the approval of the President to Order No. 3 was indicated in the 

 manner required by Executive Order No. 8807; but OSRD proceeded on 

 the assumption that the order was effective. 



Administrative Order No. 4, issued on November 8, 1943, was the first 



