Word: alvear
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...Buenos Aires' broad, stately Avenida Alvear last week, municipal workers in faded blue denim wearily hammered together a new temporary grandstand. "What is this for?" asked a reporter. "The July 9 Independence celebration? The arrival of Chile's President?" "Quién sabe?" answered a carpenter. "Perhaps for that. Perhaps for the return of the Sñora from her voyage. Ah, sñor, you have read of this voyage? A miracle, is it not so? Surely, all the world must know...
Since the inauguration two months ago Eva de Perón had set a pace for which only Eleanor Roosevelt had set modern precedent. At her office on the fourth floor of the Central Post Office Building she received trade union delegations before her neighbors along the swank Avenida Alvear were out of bed. Nurses and teachers, quick to spot a militant feminist, mayors and cabinet ministers eager for Evita's views on public issues, jammed her waiting rooms...
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...