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Telephone solicitations were conducted during normal
business hours 5 days per week, except on those days on which an
evening solicitation was conducted, when solicitations began at
12 noon. Telephone solicitations were conducted approximately 46
weeks per year. Telephone solicitations were monitored by a
member of petitioner (the Trooper Monitor) to answer questions,
if necessary, and to ensure that the solicitation did not involve
coercion, fraud, or duress. Businesses which were solicited by
telemarketers could have made a contribution to petitioner
without having their name or any other identifying statement
appear in print in The Constabulary. Each year, only five or six
businesses that were solicited pursuant to the earnings program
contributed money to The Constabulary without being recognized by
name in The Constabulary.
In operation, petitioner exercised substantial control over
BWE and McKnight. Petitioner set the office hours for
advertisement solicitations for The Constabulary; set rules for
depositing gross receipts and returning bad checks; monitored the
use of telephones for personal calls by ad sellers; required BWE
and McKnight office managers to be present at weekly
reconciliation meetings; demanded to be advised of any problems;
demanded the names of all telephone solicitors; required BWE and
McKnight to maintain personal data files on all employees; and
geographically limited the areas to which advertisement
solicitations could be made.
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