Yes a few guys did slip through in new York. But think books being closed were for the tri state area families, as so the families would stop expanding. I know SF and NO were exempt from this as they were older families. Some of the smaller families made members during this time as well.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green