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1. 5.5.1-57 - Scrapbook

   Scrapbook (1 of 3) of Cornelius Gaston dated 1934-1936. This scrapbook includes clippings from "The Forum" in Stockton, California, a newspaper advocating Henry George's Single Tax theory as well as the "No Tax" movement. Most of the articles are written by or to the editor, Loring Dumas Beckwith. Topics include: Georgist philosophy, Progress and Poverty, The Townsend Pension Plan, NRA (the National Recovery Administration) which was establis...

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2. 5.6.1-55 - Scrapbook

   Scrapbook (2 of 3), likely of E. B. Gaston (although archival notes of physical folder shows C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1935. Includes clippings from newspaper The Forum (and possibly No Taxes, although headings are cut off) on topics such as Georgist issues, taxes, politics of the day in relation to taxation and land valuation, and Upton Sinclair. These newspapers are edited by L. D. Beckwith. 5.6.4-5 is a letter to the editor of The Fo...

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3. 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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