Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very existence of St. Pauls Cathedral to be sacrificed on the altar ot commercialism?" asked Canon Sidney Arthur Alexander last week, and the whole Conservative press of Britain proceeded to shudder...
...Amazing as it sounds," continued the Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and keep the sand...
...must have wet sand!" cried Canon Alexander fervently. "We must have wet sand...
...Canon Alexander's opinion this would mean the crumbling end of one of London's tallest, most venerated buildings. He urged that Parliament create the region of St. Paul's a "sacred area" within which all digging and blasting would be perpetually forbidden. First proposed in 1912 the "sacred area" scheme was rejected then by a businessmen's majority of the London City Corporation...
Professional Prohibitors who last week put their views before the House committee were: Dr. Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses...