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
There were two of them; one who was hired to do the talking while the real wire-puller stood aside and held the coin bag.
From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis
Francis Place was the wire-puller, to whose energy was due the abolition of the Conspiracy Laws in 1824.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
If he had been a political wire-puller, many of our misfortunes might have been averted.
From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha
