Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left, By Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger. Philadelphia theatre-owner who was killed last month by his wife in Nice (TIME, March 23); some $725,000, one-third of the income of which goes to Mrs. Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger, who now awaits trial for murder, the balance to their two children, a previous wife, and a secretary; the whole at last to charity...
...Nice, French Riviera, deep-dimpled Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, the young U. S. citizen who slew her elderly Philadelphia husband (TIME, March 23), was loudly cheered by 1,000 Niceois when she went to court to plead for bail. Bail was denied. The prisoner was returned to the cell which she shares with a French Negress charged with murder, was told that she may have to spend the Summer there awaiting trial...
French counsel for Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger made light of the fact that after divorcing him in 1926 she remarried him in 1928. This did not prove, they contended, that she knew what kind of a man he was and should not have married him a second time unless she was prepared to take her chances...
...second pistol, assumed to have belonged to Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger, was found in the apartment. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger charged that he had once threatened her with...
...consul at Nice, Robertson Honey, escorted the Swedish nurse when she brought fresh linen to make up Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger's bed in jail. In Paris the lawyer who handled Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's last divorce coined an impromptu epitaph: "He always found married life extremely difficult. But he found it impossible to live alone...