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1. 29.13.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1934 comprised of letters and one telegram concerning the decision by the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to not allow participation by FSTC lessees in the program. The decision was a great disadvantage to the lessees personally, and a blow to the FSTC which fought the decision with the end result being an amendment to the HOLC act allowing Fairhope's participation. There are in...

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2. 29.15.1-16 - Correspondence

   Correspondence dated June 1934 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The correspondence in this folder deals exclusively with the federal Home Owner's Loan Corporation and the issue that lessees of the FSTC were not eligible for these loans. See 29.13.1-12 for continuing correspondence about this issue from July 1934. Correspondents include E. B. Gaston, Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill, HOLC Mobile District Counsel J. H Webb...

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3. 29.18.1-23 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1934 and April 1934. The first issue is that the lesses of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation are not authorized to receive loans through the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (also refferred to as the Home Owner's Loan Association). There is significant correspondence between E. B. Gaston, HOLC officials and members of the U. S, House and Senate with regard to this issue both in ...

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4. 29.20.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence about the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLA) regarding the eligbility of lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to partcipate in the loan program. Also included in an amendment to the HOLC bill which would change wording so FSTC lessees would be eligible. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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5. 29.25.1-13 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence and documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1934 through December 1934. Documents include FSTC lessees' applications to the Home Owner's Loan Corporation and Newsdom's Second New Deal Poll of The Newspaper Industry, which polled the opinions of newspaper editors and publishers regarding the New Deal. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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6. 30.4.1-17 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated April 16-30, 1926. Of special interest are several letters between T. E. Mann in Iowa and E. B. Gaston regarding acquisition of land for the FSTC. Thomas Early Mann's father S. S. Mann was a major founder and contributor to Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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7. 4.5.1-201 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (Ba-Bi) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1934-1955. 4.5.48-83 contains correspondence between C. A. Gaston, secretary of the FSTC and John H. Bankhead, Senator of Alabama, regarding a bill he introduced before the Senate on 2/7/1935 to create the Farm Tenant Homes Corporation, to promote more secure occupancy of farms and farm homes, to correct the economic instability resulting from some present forms of farm tena...

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8. 6.4.1-143 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1933-1947 pertaining to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a New Deal program. Includes correspondence with Lister Hill and Hugo Black in a successful attempt to add amendments to the legislation which created the HOLC so that lessees of the FSTC would be eligible for the program. Other correspondence pertains to individual petitions for the program.

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