Executive Order 8044

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution, by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 631), by the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403, 404), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

 Until further order, Executive Order No. 7916 of June 24, 1938, is suspended and made inoperative in so far as it covers into the competitive classified civil service as of February 1, 1939:

As used in this order the term "administrative and technical positions" shall mean all classes of positions:

A committee is hereby appointed consisting of the following:


 * Mr. Justice Stanley Reed, Chairman
 * Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter
 * Attorney General Frank Murphy
 * William H. McReynolds, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury
 * Mr. Leonard D. White
 * General Robert E. Wood
 * Mr. Gano Dunn

Such committee shall make a comprehensive study of methods of recruiting, testing, selecting, promoting, transferring, removing and reinstating personnel for the positions to which this order relates, and report to the President as soon as possible its recommendations thereon.

, January 31, 1939.