Word: alvear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week...
Died. Marcelo de Alvear, 73, onetime (1922-28) President of Argentina; in Buenos Aires. A revolutionary in the '90s, he became leader of the Radical Party, was Ambassador to France...
...space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread to the smart Avenida Alvear...
...Conservative-controlled Senate Committee has ruled that the President is too nearly blind to read the bills he would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina ends the political strife which has weakened her for two generations, she will commit national harakiri...
Fortnight ago he flew to Mar del Plata and offered to Radical Leader Marcelo T. de Alvear, who was vacationing there, a political truce. Under this new Pinedo plan the chiefs of the two political camps, Radicales and Conservadores, would choose common candidates for the principal offices to be filled in provincial elections this year. For minor offices each camp would run its own candidates. While wily Marcelo de Alvear kept mum, Pinedo let the deal out of the bag and the press and Juan Pueblo waxed indignant...