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1. 29.10.2-3 - Correspondence

   Documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1934. Includes a receipt dated February 28,1934 from E.B. Gaston to FSTC Treasurer E. C. Wolcott for $6. Also includes a letter dated February 26, 1934 to E. B. Gaston from J. H. Webb, District Counsel for the Hone Owners Loan Association saying that J. E. Rolston, District Manager for the HOLA had reported to him that FSTC lessees were not eligibile for HOLA loans. Webb ...

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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 29.5.1-22 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated August 1934 regarding the Home Owners Loan Corporation. FSTC lessees had been rejected as applicants for the program (see 29.10.3) in February 1934, and these letters are addressing that issue. Letters are from and to the FSTC with these individuals: Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill (2nd district of Alabama), Wallace H. Walker, J. Chandler Burton (State Counsel for the HOme...

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7. 3.16.1-82 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, (letter C), 1930-1935. Includes general correspondence as well as the following: 3.16.19-23 is a letter from W. H. Clarke, who moved away with his family when he was a small child, telling of his early memories of Fairhope and its citizenry. 3.16.28-46 is correspondence between E. B. Gaston and W. E. Clement discussing single tax theory. This section includes pamphlets from the Young ...

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8. 3.29.1-83 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (B-Bl) to E. B. Gaston and replies to various people reqesting information on Fairhope. In one letter, E. B. Gaston mentions that his sister passed away on October 16, 1932 at 87 years of age. An interesting article is noted on pg. 2 from the Chicago Federal Labor News entitled " Fairhope, Alabama, the World's Pioneer Single Tax Town: an Existing Example of Single Tax Practicability. Letters from a Josephine Black (wife of...

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9. 3.9.64 - Letter

   Undated draft of letter (likely 1935) sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with copies to Alabama Senator Hugo Black and Alabama Representative Lister Hill (later senator) from E. B. Gaston. Gaston says the single tax colony established as Fairhope in south Alabama is an example of FDR's call for a "wider distribution of wealth." Gaston commends FDR's support of the Tennessee Valley Authority (founded 1933). Gaston, writing for the...

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10. 4.6.1-147 - Correspondence

    Correspondence (Bi-By) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1951. 4.6.2-7 is correspondence between E. B. Gaston and Senator Hugo Black dated 1935 in which they discuss Social Security and the Thirty Hour Week, among other things. Most of the other correspondence is to and from C. A. Gaston, secretary Fairhope Single Tax Corporation answering letters of inquiry about the Fairhope Single Tax Colony and the Fairhope Single Tax C...

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11. 4.8.1-112 - Correspondence

    This correspondence (1936-1940) includes letters written by C. A. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, responding to letters of inquiry from various people and organiztions including; The Anti-Single Tax Control Bureau, Auburn University, Cornell University, Rollins College, Marietta College and The Modern School. Many of the inquiries are from students of political economy, Henry George, Single Taxation generally and the...

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12. 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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13. PMG-4464-4512 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of Frank L. Brown between 1931-1932. Includes letters, clippings and an editorial during his last tenure as president of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Correspondents include: H. W. Noren C. J. Ewing Henry Ford F. C. Immler Hugo L. Black, Senator from Alabama Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior W. P. Hobart Rev. R. M Hunter D. S. Gage Rev. W. E. Locker Burns Parker A. R. Forbush Lyman Ward Also includ...

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