wire-puller
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Most active wire-puller against Lewis was foxy Daniel J. Tobin, head of the Federation's biggest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he had been a political wire-puller, many of our misfortunes might have been averted.
From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha
Monroe gave him a piece of paper, and the wire-puller began to make his calculations.
From Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat by Optic, Oliver
But now all that was changed, and the personality of Bhagwan Singh's English wire-puller had for him a sinister significance.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon
Mathers was simply the best organiser and wire-puller I ever met in the course of my life.
From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)
