There are some exceptions to these rates. A taxpayer is not able to use the business standard mileage rate for a vehicle after claiming accelerated depreciation on that vehicle. The standard rate is also not applicable to fleet owners.
November 19, 2016. Ruth Gruber, an American journalist who stumbled into one of the great rescue stories of the Holocaust when the U.S. government appointed her to escort nearly 1,000 Jews across U-boat infested waters to the shores of the United States, died Nov. 17 at her home in Manhattan. She was 105.
Franz Boas, her teacher and mentor, has been called the father of American anthropology and his teachings and point of view are clearly evident in Benedict's work. Ruth Benedict was affected by the passionate love of Boas, her mentor, and continued it in her research and writing.Benedict held the post of President of the American Anthropological Association and was also a prominent member of the American Folklore Society.oas regarded Benedict as an asset to the anthropology department, and in 1931 he appointed her as Assistant Professor in Anthropology, something impossible until her divorce from Stanley Benedict that same year. One student who felt especially fond of Ruth Benedict was Ruth Landes.