Word: maida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church Assembly nevertheless put off action on the repealer until its next session. The Assembly did take action en another matter put over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical commissioners are getting out of bad leases, and that, according...