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
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
It's only that I so dislike Grace's ineradicable idea that I am a wire-puller.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith
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)
It was useless to resist the fiat of the chief wire-puller; the ticket remained as it had been originally prepared; and the young gentlemen proceeded to distribute the rest of the offices.
From Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat by Optic, Oliver
