From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Cleveland.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
2.
... Cleveland.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
3.
... Cleveland.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though none of these principles had the force
of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they
were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.
4.
... Cleveland in
1950.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
5.
Cleveland's Plain
Dealer articles about us ran ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into
hundreds overnight.
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