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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... broker.  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.


2.
  ... broker friends to send me out looking ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and I decided to go anyway.


3.
  ... broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.


4.
  ... broker had been relieved of his drink ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.


5.
  ... broker had gone to Akron on a ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.


6.
  ... broker had learned the grave nature of ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
From this doctor, the broker had learned the grave nature of alcoholism.


7.
  ... broker had worked hard with many alcoholics ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping sober himself.


8.
  ... broker returned to New York in the ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
When the broker returned to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been formed, though no one realized it at the time.


The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).  Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and More concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc.  Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the 164 and More concordance.

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