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Hill, Lister |
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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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29.12.1-26 - Correspondence
Documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1936. Includes correspondence, a receipt, a booklet titled "Science and Taxation," personal correspondence, and a letter from Congressman Lister Hill about the Tennessee Valley Authority. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.14.1-23 - Correspondence
Correspondence dated July 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation including letters to members of the U.S. Senate and House about various issues and legistation (including the TVA.) In addition, a letter E.B. Gaston wrote to President Roosevelt is referenced in a 'thank you letter" to Gaston from Secretary to the President Louis Howe. Gaston contacts members of Congress who are Single Taxers (Theodore L. Mortiz and Charles R. Eckert, both o...
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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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29.16.1-45 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1935. Includes correspondence, receipts and a booklet. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives
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29.17.1-42 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1935. Includes various correspondence and receipts. Of special interest is correspondence to E.B. Gaston from J. A. Marable, publisher of The Magnolia Times in Magnolia, Arkansas. Marable sends four of his poems to Gaston, as well as his essay titled "The Nature of Morality." Another set of correspondence of interest is between Gaston and A. C. Campbell of Ontario, Canada...
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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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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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29.22.1-21 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1935. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.24.1-20 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and of E. B. Gaston dated September 1935. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. .
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29.4.1-23 - Correspondence
Correspondence and receipts dated April 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Topics of the correspondence include federal legislation promoted by The People's Lobby and a letter from Bolton Hall. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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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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29.8.1-25 - Correspondence
Correspondence dated February 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.9.1-10 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February,1936. See 29.9.7-10 for separately cataloged letters of interest between E. B. Gaston and L. R. Clements. Clements was the first president of the Fairhope Industrial Assoication. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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3.24.1-86 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (letters E-F), namely that of E. B. Gaston, secretary, dated 1930-1936. Most are requests for information about the single tax colony, some from individuals who are considering a move to Fairhope, others who are inquiring for class projects/research purposes/general info purposes. Many letters provide insight (through Gaston's eyes) about life in Fairhope. 3.24.6-14 includes corresponden...
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3.26.1-51 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation 1930-1936 (Me-Mu) by E. B. Gaston, secretary, mostly letters of inquiry about acquiring leases in Fairhope or receiving information for research/school projects about the Fairhope Colony. Of special interest: 3.26.4-5 letter to Fairhope Single Tax Corporation membership from Alex Melville (separately cataloged). 3.26.16 is a letter to L. L. Miller from Gaston in which Gaston mentions the...
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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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5.10.1-234 - Letter
Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...
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5.16.1-215 - Correspondence
Correspondence (Hi-Hu) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1936-1958. 5.16.2-92 contains correspondence between C. A. Gaston, secretary Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and Lister Hill, Senator from Alabama. Topics include: the Mobile Marine Hospital, President Truman, communism, civil rights, labor legislation, Office of Price Administration (OPA), Alabama State Docks, Spanish River, President Roosevelt, 5.16.23-26 contains corr...
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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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