The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep: The Friday Quiz: A Son of the Nutmeg State

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The Friday Quiz: A Son of the Nutmeg State

A late start! Aahhh! Marsupial panic. Let's just do it...

Simeon E. Baldwin, a Yale professor and the publisher of Baldwin's Connecticut Digest suggested a gathering in 1878 in Saratoga Springs, New York, by colleagues drawn from 21 different states. The result was the creation of an organization that survives to this day. Simultaneous with its founding, the practice which it supports began moving from an emphasis on speaking to one on writing. Baldwin, incidentally, later switched his political party affiliation, to the Democratic party, and was elected governor of Connecticut.

What organization was he instrumental in founding?

First correct answer posted to comments wins an autographed copy of Scooter Libby's intrigue-filled novel The Apprentice. No Googling or ratting out the veep!
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Posted by BT on March 9, 2007 11:05 AM | Permalink

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The Model UN association?

Posted by: gavinedwards | March 9, 2007 01:07 PM

NAMBLA

Posted by: boxjam | March 9, 2007 01:46 PM

nnnnnope

Posted by: BT | March 9, 2007 03:08 PM

Toastmasters?

Posted by: art | March 9, 2007 07:23 PM

The Braille Poetry Slam Club?

Posted by: gavinedwards | March 9, 2007 08:25 PM

No. It's a very large and even, in some ways, quite powerful organization, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Posted by: lewombat | March 9, 2007 09:53 PM

the M.L.A.?

Posted by: bootsy3000 | March 10, 2007 06:24 PM

hmmmm....

bootsy's answer seems pretty good

Posted by: art | March 11, 2007 06:34 PM

But it's wrong!

"Powerful" is a relative term...this organization would indeed crush the MLA like a bespectacled bug beneath it's well-shod heel.

I'll tell all tomorrow.

Posted by: BT | March 11, 2007 11:40 PM

Gah. "its", not "it's."

Posted by: BT | March 11, 2007 11:40 PM

The MLA would have your head...if they were more powerful.

Could this be, um, like the Rotary Club or something similar?

Posted by: art | March 12, 2007 04:19 AM

ABA

Also, Whiskey Rebellion is in tha house: http://www.time.com/time/2007/presidential_pardons/index.html

Posted by: james | March 12, 2007 09:19 AM

dingdingding!

The American Bar Association it is!

James earns a free pardon for any future offense against the United States of Wombat.

Posted by: BT | March 12, 2007 03:23 PM

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