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

"It was very astute of me, or of the wire-puller above us, to postpone my fit until the very moment you were with me," he said.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

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

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

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