BE – He was once giving a Shmuz and said “My brother – a Rov in Baltimore”. At that time he was a Big Rov in Washington Heights.
I assumed that he meant a Musser tidbit. That your Chashevous (greatness) comes from your beginings, not from your lofty position that somehow you got appointed to. Even though the job in Balto. he was also appointed to, but there really wasn’t much Kovod attached to that position.