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Louis Brandeis, 84, retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 5 October 1941.

Col. G. W. Burleigh, 69, soldier, church leader, and lawyer, 15 March 1940.

Al(phonse) Capone, 48, Italian American former gangster, 25 January 1947.

John H. Clarke, 87, former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who resigned in 1922 to promote American participation in the League of Nations, 22 March 1945.

P. D. Cravath, 78, president of the Metropolitan Opera Association and lawyer, 1 July 1940.

Mrs. M. P. Falconer, 79, prison reformer, 26 November 1941.

I. F. Fischer, 81, U.S. customs judge in New York City, 16 March 1940.

J. S. Fisher, 73, former governor of Pennsylvania and lawyer, 25 June 1940.

E. W. Graser, 32, lawyer and radio actor who portrayed the Lone Ranger, 8 April 1941.

Grafton Green,...

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