Gets Treasury Post

The ranks of Dartmouth men in Washington were recently increased by the appointment of Roswell F. Magill 16 as Under Secretary of the Treasury. He has been granted leave of absence as Professor of Law at Columbia University in order to carry on his government work.

A specialist in matters of federal taxation, he was special attorney for the Treasury Department in 1923-24, and under the New Deal has been one of Secretary Morgenthau's tax experts. He was special adviser to the Puerto Rico Tax Commission in 1925 and 1928-29, and headed a commission to investigate and report upon the British tax system in 1934.

After graduating from Dartmouth summa cum laude, he entered the University of Chicago Law School in 1916 and left the following year for the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill. After being honorably discharged from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Captain of Infantry, he returned to Chicago and received his law degree in 1920. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in the same year and from 1921 to 1923 was instructor in law at the University of Chicago. In 1924 he went to Columbia as Assistant Professor of Law and three years later became a full professor, which position he has since held. He is a member of the New York Bar, and has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Harvard, and Stanford.

His published works include A Summaryof the British Tax System (1934), FederalTaxes on Estates, Trusts and Gifts (1935, with Robert H. Montgomery), TaxableInco?ne (1936), and several casebooks on Civil Procedure, Business Organization, and Taxation, for law school use. He was married in 1918 and has a son and daughter.

As a Dartmouth undergraduate Magill was editor of The Dartmouth, a Phi Beta Kappa student, and a member of Palaeopitus, Casque and Gauntlet, and Kappa Sigma fraternity.

ROSWELL F. MAGILL '16 Whom President Roosevelt has named asUnder Secretary of the Treasury.