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
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)
Yet, though ostensibly free, these local bodies are practically in the power of the political wire-puller, or cacique.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt
Place, therefore, acted as a most efficient wire-puller, but had no ambition to leave his shop to make speeches on the hustings.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Thurlow Weed, editor, man of the world, political wire-puller beyond compare, Seward's devoted henchman, was the legate.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
