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1940 AA Preamble

Church School Magazine, December 1940

American Association Of Psychiatric Social Workers, Fall 1940

Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease, Vol. 42(3), September 1940

Christian Herald, August 1940

Illinois Medical Journal, January 20, 1940

Alcoholics Anonymous – Scribner’s Commentator, January 1941

Alcoholics Anonymous – Time, February 19, 1940

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