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...House of Commons, Mr. Ronald McNeill, the rubicund Financial Secretary of the Treasury, was asked: "What are so many U. S. typewriters used for by the Government...
Indignation was expressed in the House of Commons when it was learned that Mr. McNeill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, had leased the right to film the signing of the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2) to a single cinema firm for only...
Finally Mr. McNeill himself arose: "Gentlemen, the ?150 represents the 'cost of production' to the Government: the installing of the platform from which the pictures were taken, the electric wiring and the special lighting apparatus. . . . I am perfectly willing to admit that I may do better next time. . . . The Government will consider the possibility of asking for competitive bids...
...Book Flung across House of Commons!", "Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!" Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial "Winnie" Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him-a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles...
...Baldwin Government last week appointed Mr. McNeill (now a well known economist and a retired editor of the St. James Gazette) to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Since Winston Churchill is Chancellor of the Exchequer, it becomes the duty of "Wild Irish McNeill" to slip quietly in and out of the Churchillian sanctum bearing facts and figures...