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Though he died at 31, he was considered one of the most influential journalists of the twenties, a master innovator and stylist, and an iconic figure of the Jazz Age. Hadden and Luce served alternating years as the company's president, but Hadden was the editor for four and a half of the magazine's first six years, and was considered the "presiding genius".

Hadden and Luce used their contacts through the Skull and Bones secret society. A fellow member, Henry Pomeroy Davison Jr. Morgan , the most powerful commercial bank in the United States at the time, to invest money in the magazine. In the two men argued about business matters. Henry Luce was keen to publish a second magazine that he wanted to call Fortune.

Hadden was opposed to the idea of publishing a journal devoted to promoting the capitalist system.

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He considered the "business world to be vapid and morally bankrupt". Wikipedia reports that "In December , Hadden became ill. He died two months later, most likely of streptococcus viridans, which had entered his bloodstream, causing septicemia and ultimately the failure of his heart.