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...rebellion of New York's charwomen showed that a once-indispensable utensil was not outmoded. No longer, they declared, would they clean cuspidors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Wall Street only a few late workers heard the rising thunder of engines and looked up. There was only a moment-a quick glimpse of scattered squares of light where charwomen worked while the low clouds swirled about the towers. Then the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Out of the Night | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...states, teachers' pay averages less than that of charwomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers v. Charwomen | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...determined democrat as well as a crusading Tory, she once had some Whitehall charwomen in to afternoon tea at 10 Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1945 | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...have become a nation to us, not merely charming and gifted individuals-a nation with a political and social conscience. It did not need a Roosevelt to teach this to me personally, but that is what he has done to the charwomen of London, the bistro proprietor in Provence, the factory hand in Kharkov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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