Word: parlier
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Twoscore Parlier Township ranchers showed up for the trial. Before the trial started they talked with Justice of the Peace L. B. Crosby, 65. Mounting the bench, Justice Crosby said: "I guess we know how we feel about this. What shall we do?" He did not wait for an answer. He sentenced Multanen to six months in jail, promptly suspended sentence...
...Washington, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, whose War Relocation Authority had heckled Valley authorities for their tolerance of terrorism, sputtered with rage: "A disgrace to the bench. . . ." Justice Crosby sputtered right back. His decision, he said, was "a community arrangement." Observed one Parlier resident: if the judge had been any tougher, he would have been run out of town...
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