Word: woodner
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...obviously, the FHA scandals have become part of nightclub repertories, Red Smith's column and American folk lore generally. (The tabloids had fun with the story of Ian Woodner, a Washington builder who charged to FHA projects $87,000 for detectives-partly to check up on his ex-wife.) Until last week, however, nobody knew much about the central character: Clyde L. (for Lilbon) Powell, 58, who joined FHA under the Democrats in 1934 and was forced out last spring. From 1946 to 1950, as assistant commissioner, he authorized projects that netted some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits...