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that he felt impelled to resign the chairmanship of the Committee on Scien- 

 tific Personnel in December 1942. He was succeeded in April 1943, by John 

 V. L. Hogan, a well-known radio engineer. Hogan also was designated as 

 Bush's alternate on the Committee on Scientific Research Personnel of the 

 War Manpower Commission, which is described below. 



Hogan recommended that OSRD scientific personnel activities be con- 

 centrated in a new operating unit of OSRD headed by a single individual 

 in place of the existing committee. Bush accepted the recommendation and 

 the Scientific Personnel Office (SPO) was established as a principal subdi- 

 vision of OSRD by Administrative Order No. 3 of August 21, 1943. After 

 providing that the head of the ofi&ce should be appointed by the Director, 

 the Order continued in Section 2(e): 



Under the general supervision and direction of the Director and subject to the 

 directives and regulations of the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, 

 the Scientific Personnel Office shall have charge of administering the duties as 

 set forth in Section 2.b. of Executive Order No. 8807 with respect to scientific 

 personnel utilized in developing and applying to war purposes the scientific 

 research and development sponsored by the OflEce of Scientific Research and 

 Development. Principal among such duties shall be (i) handling the relationships 

 between the Office of Scientific Research and Development and other govern- 

 mental agencies with respect to scientific personnel, and (ii) dealing with the 

 problems relating to scientific personnel employed by or associated with the 

 Office of Scientific Research and Development or its contractors, particularly prob- 

 lems in connection with policies and procedures relating to the evaluation, train- 

 ing, allocation, compensation and requests for deferment by the Selective Service 

 System of such scientific personnel. 



The head of the SPO was authorized to administer the duties set forth 

 in Section 2(e) and to delegate any of his powers or duties to such assistant 

 as he might designate with the approval of the Director. Hogan was named 

 as head of SPO, to which was transferred the Selective Service unit of the 

 Administrative Office, also described below. 



In a memorandum of June 10, 1943, to Hogan, Bush outlined three major 

 functions of SPO. The first was to handle relationships between OSRD and 

 other agencies on matters relating to scientific personnel. This included 

 furnishing the Committee on Scientific Research Personnel (CSRP) of the 

 War Manpower Commission information concerning OSRD and OSRD 

 contractors' personnel for possible inclusion in the Reserved List (described 

 later); maintaining liaison with the National Roster of Scientific and Spe- 

 cialized Personnel, as well as with various branches of the Army and Navy 

 and other agencies; and making recommendations regarding the flow of 

 scientific personnel outward from OSRD. The Chief of SPO served as alter- 

 nate to the Director of OSRD as a member of CSRP. The second function 

 was to serve as the center for handling matters relating to scientific personnel 



