to caricature the corpulent figure of Alvear in several of the situations, such as his attempt to correctly accommodate himself in an armchair, since the president was forced to turn his chair to do so and thus be able to cross his long legs; or hurriedly leaving Congress to go to the beach at Mar del Plata or vice versa, referring to his habit of spending vacations in that city. His patience in the face of the exhausting division that shook radicalism was also a common point of several humorists of the time. The cartoonists baptized him as the bald man, in "opposition" to the hairy one that was Hipólito Yrigoyen. The newspaper La Prensa paid tribute to Alvear's personality:Last night the life of a citizen who rendered eminent services to the country and who was an example of civic virtues through half a century of public performance was extinguished. Alvear knew, in short, the satisfactions, concerns and bitterness that the exercise of public functions and political activities provide; he showed, in his tireless dedication, in an incessant approach to the fundamental problems of the country and in his fervent preaching of democratic principles, which both since the level as from the highest positions it is possible to be useful to the country when it is loved dearly and only its good is pursued. One of the first tributes to Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear was the inauguration of the Presidente Alvear Theater, on 23 March 1942, a month after the death of the former president. The father and geographer Alberto María de Agostini gave the name Sierra Alvear to a mountain range in the Andes Mountains, which includes the highest peaks in the Argentine part of the Island of Tierra del Fuego. On 23 March 2017, on the 75th anniversary of Alvear's death, the UCR paid tribute to the former president at the Bicentennial Museum, where a space with objects of him was also inaugurated to remember his figure. To this is added the wide number of towns and streets named in his honor and that of his family: Village Alvear, Santa Fe. Department General Alvear, Buenos Aires (Province). Municipality and village General Alvear, Misiones. Department General Alvear, Mendoza. Department General Alvear, Corrientes. City Alvear, Corrientes. Honours Decorations See also History of Argentina (The Radicals in Power, 1916-1930) References External links Britannica.com |- 1868 births 1942 deaths People from Buenos