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The growing intensity of public fear and anger has caught Washington and Wall Street by surprise.

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FILE - In this July 21, 1934 file photo, people pose in front of the Biograph Theater at Lincoln and Fullerton Streets as one woman displays the newspaper headline “Dillinger Slain” in Chicago, Ill. Outlaw John Dillinger was shot and killed by federal...