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
Then he showed a schedule; so much to this wire-puller and that and the other; so much apiece to so many able editors; so much for eminent legal counsel; finally, a trifle for himself.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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)
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
Men spoke of him as a clever wire-puller who could manufacture a spurious public sentiment in his own favour.
From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)
