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

You will best serve him by being perfectly frank with me, and if it will induce you to be so, let me say that the wire-puller in the business is Mr. Travers Nugent.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon

I'll admit that I'm no good as a wire-puller, but when it comes to getting out the voters, there's where you will find me as solid as a bridge abutment.

From Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories by Adams, Andy

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)

The choice was not the result of merit; on the other hand, it was not the work of the ordinary wicked wire-puller, for what may be called the machine was working for Seward.

From Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron