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
Wen I get big, Mr. Diry, I guess I'll hire myself out for a perfesshunal pollytickal wire-puller.
From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
"What's the meaning of it all?" persisted the Washington wire-puller, surveying the Fastburg wire-puller with bland superiority, much as the city mouse may have surveyed the country mouse.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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
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
