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Episode 442 - The Transistor Salesman

History of Japan

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Ekata's Income Doubling

The single most successful appeal of ekadas l d p was the slogan he himself helped bring into the party mainstream, income doubling. This was an idea ekata had been bandying about as far back as the final days of the kishe administration. Before the 19 60 crisis, the socialist party made use of its one third status to claim itself as the sole protector of the const ution. But after the crisis, when all the parties swore to protect the constitution for the foreseeable future, the Socialist Party's single most effective appeal to voters was lost.

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