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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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testimony, examined the exhibits offered in evidence, considered the argument of counsel in behalf of the respondent, and being fully advised and informed in the premises, finds t h a t : 1. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States on August 20, 1930, made an order suspending respondent from practicing before the Department; 2. T h a t in an opinion dated November 24, 1930, Justice Adkins of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia found that the evidence before the Secretary of the Treasury in support of his findings and decision leading to the suspension of respondent from "practicing before the Treasury Department" was sufficient to support the order and showed "unprofessional conduct" on the part of respondent Tinkoff in connection with an increase in the amount of a surety bond filed by a taxpayer with the Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago. The said justice also found that there was sufficient evidence before the Secretary of the Treasury to support a finding that respondent was guilty of "preparing a false and fraudulent return for one John Griffith for the year 1925"; 3. At the June, 1932, term of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, a grand jury indicted respondent on two counts among others, charging him with preparing with and as an employee of another a false return for the calendar year 1928 and filing the same with the Collector of Internal Revenue; on July 24, 1934, a J u r v convicted respondent on both counts; 4. The Circuit Court of Appeals for this circuit affirmed this conviction, and on May 3, 1937, the United States Supreme Court refused a petition for a writ of certiorari; 5. On June 2, 1937, in the Supreme Court of Illinois the respondent was "forever disbarred from the practice of law in any of the courts of this S t a t e " ; 6. That the respondent, Paysoff Tinkoff, is guilty of unprofessional conduct. IT IS T H E R E F O R E O R D E R E D by the University of Illinois and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that Certified Public Accountant Certificate 466 issued to Paysoff Tinkoff by the University of Illinois on the eighteenth day of October, 1923, be and the same is hereby in all things revoked and cancelled. By order of the University of Illinois and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois this twenty-seventh day of April, 1939.

On motion of Mr. Moschel, seconded by Mr. Wieland, order 2A as printed above was adopted and made effective, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Adams, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Mayer, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Moschel, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Wieland; no, none; not voting, Mr. Jensen; absent, Mr. Horner, Mr. Pogue.

APPOINTMENT TO HEADSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY (3) A recommendation t h a t : 1. The resignation of Dean M. T. McClure as Head of the Department of Philosophy be accepted, effective September 1, 1939, but t h a t he continue to hold the rank of Professor of Philosophy, in addition to the Deanship of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; 2. Professor Arthur E. Murphy of Brown University be appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy on indefinite tenure, effective September 1, 1939, at a salary of $6,500. Dean McClure has made a very thorough and careful canvass of candidates available for this position. The appointment of Professor Murphy is supported by many excellent letters of recommendation, samples of which are attached, and it meets with the unanimous approval of the staff of the Department of Philosophy.

On motion of Mr. Jensen, these recommendations were adopted.