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Word: agron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx, the cops found the two leaders rummaging for food in a garbage can. The knife-wielding Cape Man was a soft-faced tough named Salvador Agron. just turned 16. His mother and stepfather, a part-time Pentecostal minister of a storefront church, had sent the boy to live in, Harlem with a 17-year-old married sister whose husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Slaughter off Tenth Avenue | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Dangerous Import. When the rabbis refused to give way, Premier Ben-Gurion stepped in, told Jerusalem's Mayor Gershon Agron to see that Glueck's plans were approved immediately. Last week the Orthodox bowed to the inevitable, granted Glueck his building permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform for Israel? | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Through the city streets marched hundreds of teen-agers behind a flaming Hanukkia. "The boy not prepared to face the future of our people's freedom," Mayor Gershon Agron told them, "is worth only half of one who is prepared to fight for it. It is Jewish deeds and Jewish deeds alone which will count in the final reckoning." At kindergarten parties children greeted their parents with "tickets" decorated with scrawled jet planes and guns to show that the price of admission would go to the National Voluntary Arms Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Feast of Lights | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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