Word: steffan
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Roger Steffan, onetime Ohio grocery boy, came last week a vice presidency in National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading...
Young as he is, Mr. Steffan has hardly created a youthful banking precedent. National City's Board Chairman Charles Mitchell was head of National City Co. at 39 and of National City Bank at 44. National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler was 43 when (TIME, April 8) he took office. And Robert Livingston Clarkson, now absent because of illness, became president of Chase National last year at the same age that Mr. Steffan is today...