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While Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Marriage Mills | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Marriage revealed. Rose Bampton, 27, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; to Wilfred Pelletier, 40, Metropolitan Opera Company conductor; May 24; at Elkton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...satisfaction, out of business went blatant, self-advertising ministers in West Virginia's "Gretna Green," Wellsburg. In Westchester County, handy to Manhattan, justices of peace found a profitable hasty-wedding trade cut off. Likewise in Maryland a two-day law disposed of a once-popular maritopolis, Elkton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Laws & Lawmakers | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Dorothy lona Campbell Hurd, 53, only woman golfer ever to hold simultaneously the American, British and Canadian championships (1911); and Edward L. Howe, 66, widowed Princeton, N. J. banker, "just a beginner" at golf; in Elkton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT-RUSSIA: Beautiful Bay Ridge | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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