Word: middleman
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...borrowed heavily for fresh expansions, pyramided one new financial structure on top of another. Needing a friend at Nashville they "adopted" Governor Horton, insured his election with their press. Always in this new combine of politics and finance Mr. Caldwell was the looming background figure, Col. Lea the shrewd middleman, Governor Horton the small figurehead...
...small general store in St. Joseph, Mich., A. Montgomery Ward learned from his farmer customers of the lack of good markets and of the difficulty experienced by producers in obtaining proper returns for their labor. Endeavoring to eliminate as far as possible the profits gained by the middleman, in 1872 he founded, with the help of George R. Thorne, the present mail-order house...
Most logical successor would be Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, young (55), in popularity the best middleman between Regulars and Insurgents. Last week Senator McNary moved up to Assistant Republican Leader when Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington resigned to succeed Wyoming's late great Warren as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Shrewd. Senator McNary will not openly contest the leadership with Senator Watson...
...Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing and stolen their clothes...
...patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...