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Restaurants

New York's Stork Club speakeasy opens at 132 West 58th Street under the management of former Oklahoma bootlegger Sherman Billingsley, 29, who has received backing from three gangsters (Cotton Club owner Owney Madden and Oklahoma gamblers Carl Henninger and John Patton); they have encouraged him to open the place (see 1933).

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