Dinners and dining

Photograph of land lying along U.S. Highway 50, Jackson County, Missouri, described as Chas. Waight, et al., property, looking Southeast along R/Way line from West property line, probably used for a legal case by Rufus Burrus. Photo features Ashcraft Service Station, which offers chicken dinners.

At a dinner given in honor of retiring United Nations General Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo, left to right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, New United Nations Assembly President Nasrollah Entezam, of Iran (center), and acting Mayor of New York Vincent Impellitteri. The function took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

CBS radio and television star Arthur Godfrey (right) accommodates Secretary of State Dean Acheson with a light during a behind the scenes chat at the 27th Annual Dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York. Both were guest speakers at the banquet.

A color photo of Bess Truman and artist Thomas Hart Benton, seated together in the dining room of Benton's home at 3616 Belleview, Kansas City, Missouri. This appears to be post-presidential.

Members of the U.S. Reparations Mission at dinner at General Mark Clark's in Vienna. Edwin Pauley is at right; General Mark Clark is in center. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley (third from left) and others at dinner in Fushun, Manchuria during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Diner car on the train in North Korea during the U.S. Reparations Tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Dinner in Pyongyang, Korea, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Generals I. M. Chistiakov, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, and General Navidov at dinner in Pyongyang, Korea, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

General George Schulgen and General Shannon at dinner in Pyongyang, Korea, during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).