Word: parlorist
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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...
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