be used; (b) The right to change wording does not rest in Congress, as court probably would consider the matter in the same status as a will.” Upon hearing this, Boland tried to get Borglum to drop the contest, but to no avail. Acting for his father, Harold Norbeck then tried to do the same, but only succeeded, he said, in arousing the sculptor’s “resentment and ire.” Next, in a front-page story headed by a four-column cut of men at work on the Washington face, the Hearst papers announced the contest to the nation. This blocked Norbeck, Boland, and the others from continuing their efforts to
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