Business: Hegira to Jersey

Potent people were popping in and out of No. 820 Park Ave., Manhattan every day last week. Governor Lehman had traveled down from Albany to try once again to straighten out Mayor O'Brien's fumbled finances. Bankers were summoned to the Governor's home to talk about loans. President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was pumped to see if he was bluffing about moving to New Jersey (TIME, Sept. 25). If Mr. Whitney was not bluffing it was plain that the tax schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien and his adviser, Samuel...

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