Saturday, February 02, 2008

Dinosaur Sighting

From the obituary notice of Andrew Downey Orrick, who served for six years on the Securities and Exchange Commission under President Eisenhower:

He then returned to the law firm but made a moral choice to get out of the field of securities law, one of the firm’s specialties, said his nephew, attorney William Orrick III.
“My uncle was a very ethical guy,” he said. “He decided he would not practice in that area because he thought he would be using influence he had gained as a result of his governmental position in a way that would be unethical …”
—San Francisco Chronicle, page B3, February 2, 2008
The last of the gentlemen.

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