CLEVELAND in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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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.

... Cleveland. BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition

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A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.

... 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.

... 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.

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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