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role: "defendant with J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated and a former employee in a copper trading suit in the Southern District of New York"
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Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York was formed on April 24, 1959 by the merger of [[J.P. Morgan & Co.]] Incorporated and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. A Senate staff study of January 1978 recorded that J.P. Morgan held all of its stock and that in 1976 it was "among the top 5 stockvoters in almost one-half of the 130 companies in the study." After J.P. Morgan merged into [[Chase Manhattan Corporation]] on December 31, 2000, the bank was "succeeded through merger by [[JPMorgan Chase]] Bank."[^1][^2][^3]
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### The Business Plot Hearings
In November 1934 the [[McCormack-Dickstein Committee|House Special Committee on Un-American Activities]] heard Major General [[Smedley Butler]], who testified that [[Gerald P. MacGuire|Gerald MacGuire]], a bond salesman at [[Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co.]], 52 Broadway, had proposed that he lead a veterans' organization. Butler said MacGuire gave him two names as the source of the money: "Colonel Murphy, Grayson M.-P. Murphy, for whom he worked, was one." MacGuire told the committee that Murphy was "my boss." Murphy had been senior vice president of Guaranty Trust from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1920, and in 1936 was treasurer of the [[American Liberty League]], according to *Who's Who in Commerce and Industry.* The writer [[Antony C. Sutton]] described him as a director of the Guaranty Trust Company at the time of the hearings.[^5][^6]
In November 1934 the [[McCormack-Dickstein Committee|House Special Committee on Un-American Activities]] heard Major General [[Smedley Butler]], who testified that [[Gerald P. MacGuire|Gerald MacGuire]], a bond salesman at [[Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co.]], 52 Broadway, had proposed that he lead a veterans' organization. Butler said MacGuire gave him two names as the source of the money: "Colonel Murphy, Grayson M.-P. Murphy, for whom he worked, was one." MacGuire told the committee that Murphy was "my boss." Murphy had been senior vice president of Guaranty Trust from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1920, and in 1936 was treasurer of the [[American Liberty League]], according to *Who's Who in Commerce and Industry.* The writer [[Antony C. Sutton]] described Murphy as "a director of several companies controlled by the J.P. Morgan interests, including the Guaranty Trust Company" in the early 1930s, and wrote that MacGuire showed Butler a bank book whose deposits he attributed to Murphy, "director of Guaranty Trust Company and other Morgan-controlled companies."[^5][^6]
On November 24, 1934 the committee's statement said that it had "no evidence before it that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men as John W. Davis, [[Hugh S. Johnson|Gen. Hugh Johnson]], [[General Harbord]], [[Thomas W. Lamont]], [[Admiral Sims]], or [[Hanford MacNider]]."[^5] The reproduced release and testimony of the [[Business Plot]] hearings name Murphy as MacGuire's employer and as one of two sources of the money and do not mention the Guaranty Trust Company.[^5]
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[^2]: U.S. Senate, Committee on Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting and Management, *Interlocking Directorates Among the Major U.S. Corporations: A Staff Study,* Committee Print, 95th Cong., 2d sess. (January 1978), summary of findings. https://archive.org/details/interlockingdire00unit
[^3]: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Form 10-K405 for 2001 (filed March 22, 2002), Item 1, Item 14 Exhibit 4.1, and Management's Discussion. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19617/000095012302002823/y57010e10-k405.htm
[^4]: *Guaranty Trust Co. of New York v. United States,* 304 U.S. 126 (1938) (No. 566, argued March 28 and 29, decided April 25, 1938; opinion of Stone, J.). https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/304/126
[^5]: House Special Committee on Un-American Activities (McCormack-Dickstein Committee), *Investigation of Un-American Activities,* statement of November 24, 1934 and testimony of Smedley D. Butler, Paul Comly French and Gerald P. MacGuire, November 20 to 22, 1934, as reproduced in "The Plot to Overthrow FDR." https://archive.org/details/McCormackDicksteinCommittee ; Antony C. Sutton, *Wall Street and FDR* (Arlington House, 1975), ch. 10. https://archive.org/details/wall-street-and-fdr-1975
[^5]: House Special Committee on Un-American Activities (McCormack-Dickstein Committee), *Investigation of Un-American Activities,* statement of November 24, 1934 and testimony of Smedley D. Butler, Paul Comly French and Gerald P. MacGuire, November 20 to 22, 1934, as reproduced in "The Plot to Overthrow FDR." https://archive.org/details/McCormackDicksteinCommittee ; Antony C. Sutton, *Wall Street and FDR* (Arlington House, 1975), ch. 10, "FDR: Man on the White Horse," pp. 145, 147 (Murphy as director; the bank book passage at p. 145). https://archive.org/details/wall-street-and-fdr-1975
[^6]: *Who's Who in Commerce and Industry* (1936), entry "Murphy, Grayson Mallet-Prevost" ("Senior Vice-Pres., Guaranty Trust Co., 1915-17"; "Resumed position with Guaranty Trust Co., 1919-20"; "Treas., American Liberty League"). https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincommerc00unse_0
[^7]: University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center, finding aid for the Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. papers, biographical note; Gerald R. Ford Library, nomination of Thomas S. Gates as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office, Beijing, 1976. https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/legacy/upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1135
[^8]: Douglas A. Blackmon, "Silent Partner: How the South's Fight To Uphold Segregation Was Funded Up North," *The Wall Street Journal,* June 11, 1999, p. A1, reproduced at https://slaverybyanothername.com/other-writings/silent-partner-how-the-souths-fight-to-uphold-segregation-was-funded-up-north/