When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When the Warner Bros. animation studio briefly outsourced cartoon production to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ( DFE ) in the 1960s, Daffy Duck became an antagonist ( or inconsistent friend ) in several Speedy Gonzales cartoons.

Gonzales became home to John B. Meyenberg and the Western State's first condensary.

Gonzales became better known in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina struck.

The Texians successfully resisted the federal troops in what became known as the Battle of Gonzales.

This expropriation was challenged by Ferdinand Marcos when he became president of the Philippines, and the US agreed to compensate and paid the great grandson of Gonzales, German A. Bacaltos.

On March 14, 2007, Sununu became the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after a controversy over U. S. Attorney firings.

* Alberto Gonzales, chair of the Commission for District Decentralization, later became United States Attorney General

After the numerous calls by Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ), Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid ( D-NV ), Putnam became the top Republican in either House to call for the ouster of former U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

In the absence of Gonzales, Rosewall clearly became the leader, winning six tournaments including the two greatest tournaments of the year, the French Pro at Roland Garros and Wembley Pro.

The DeWitt Colony quickly became a favorite raiding target of local Karankawa, Tonkawa, and Comanche tribes, and in July 1826 they destroyed the capital city, Gonzales.

Gonzales became a rallying point for Texians opposed to Santa Anna's policies.

Gonzales was an attorney in private practice from 1982 until 1994 with the Houston law firm Vinson and Elkins, where he became a partner – the first Hispanic partner ( along with one other new partner that year ) in the firm ’ s history – and where he worked primarily with business clients.

According to a New York Times report, despite an unclassified legal opinion issued in December 30, 2004 that declared torture " abhorrent ," shortly after Gonzales became Attorney General in February 2005 the Justice Department issued another, classified opinion dated May 10, 2005, which for the first time provided CIA explicit authorization to apply to terror suspects a combination of uncomfortable physical and psychological tactics ( under strict guidelines administered by trained personnel to ensure safety, and monitored carefully by medical personnel ).

The best bands of " mainstream ' 90s " rock were Nosequien y Los Nosecuantos, Miki Gonzales and Arena Hash, whose member Pedro Suarez Vertiz became the most commercially successful Peruvian rocker of the decade as he went on a solo career.

A small promotion called International Wrestling Association, promoted by Victor Quinones, became WWC's biggest competitor when it made an alliance with wrestling giant WWF which in turn brought American superstars to IWA. Ray Gonzales resigned because he hadn't been paid for 6 months which resulted in him joining rival IWA.

In 1962, Hess wrote and recorded " Speedy Gonzales ," ( as David Dante ) which became a # 6 single for Pat Boone in the US and a # 2 in the UK, selling more than eight million copies worldwide.

The groundbreaking case, which became known as Gonzales v. Williams, was argued in the U. S. Supreme Court on December 4 and 7th, 1903 and was presided by Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller.

Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro ( using the accented voice he later gave the cartoons ' Speedy Gonzales ) and Sylvester ( using the voice that later became associated with the Looney Tunes character ), Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie, Ruby Dandridge as Geranium, Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford and Sharon Douglas as Brenda — with Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, and Hans Conried also making periodic appearances.

Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U. S. state in 1850.

LeRoy Harrison Carhart ( born 1941 ) is an American physician from Nebraska who became well known for his participation in the Supreme Court cases Stenberg v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Carhart, both of which dealt with intact dilation and extraction ( colloquially known as partial birth abortion ), a controversial abortion procedure.

A record of the early politico-military governor of Burias was never made until 1895, when Don Juan Marina became the Spanish Politico and Military Governor with Ciriaco Gonzales as Capitan, Andres Cortez as Teniente Mayor and Luis Salvacion as Juez de Paz.

Irma Flores Gonzales, previously a member of both Colegio's board and staff, became president of Colegio in 1979.

Instead of leaving the Alamo and falling back to Gonzales or Copano Bay, Bowie and Neill became committed to its defense.

Speedy is mentioned in one Duck Dodgers episode, after Cadet sits on Dodgers, prompting him to say, " I knew I should've chosen Speedy Gonzales as a sidekick!

Speedy Gonzales appeared in the Drawn Together episode The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II when he was one of the candidates who wanted to be the new housemates.

Gonzales has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International:

Gonzales is one of the earliest Anglo-American settlements in Texas, the first west of the Colorado River.

It was to Gonzales that Susanna Dickinson, widow of one of the Alamo defenders, and Joe, the slave of William B. Travis, fled with news of the Alamo massacre.

Colonist and landowner, Jacob C. Darst was also a member of the Gonzales Ranging Company relief force to the Alamo in 1836 and was one of the original " Old Eighteen ," defenders of the Gonzales cannon.

After one attempt on her life, she is placed under the protective custody of Cobretti and his partner, Sergeant Tony Gonzales ( Santoni ).

" In an August 2006 article for MSNBC, Collins ranked Laver as one of the five top men's tennis stars of all time, along with Tilden, Gonzales, Borg, and Sampras.

Pryor was one of six Democrats to vote for the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General.

A Lieutenant Gonzales on the other end of the line claims there's no one in their records called O ' Brien.

Measured to current standards Gonzales would not have been ranked number one because he had only played four and a half months in 1960 ( one tour and one tournament ): he wouldn't have accumulated enough " Race points " to be the first but in 50's or 60's standards he was, for many ( McCauley in particular ) the number one.

At the time Hoad considered Gonzales the best ( in L ' Équipe in March 1961 ) and Rosewall didn't consider himself as the pro king but others thought that Rosewall's successes in the biggest tournaments made him the number one in the world ( Robert Roy's ranking in L ' Équipe ).

In the official pro points rankings ( 7 points for the winner, 4 points for the finalist, 3 points for the third player, 2 for the fourth one and 1 point to each quarter-finalists ) taking into account 19 pro tournaments, Rosewall ended # 1 in 1964 with 78 points beating # 2 Laver ( 70 points ) and # 3 Gonzales ( 48 points ).

" Rocket " has captured two very great tournaments, a ) the U. S. Pro ( outside Boston ) over Rosewall ( suffering from food poisoning ) and Gonzales and b ) Wembley pro over Rosewall in one of their best match ever ( Gonzales has won the probably fourth greatest tournament of that year, the U. S. Pro Indoors, at White Plains, defeating in succession Anderson, Laver, Hoad and Rosewall ).

Santa Anna posted one company east of the Alamo, on the road to Gonzales.

Gonzales grew up on the north coast of Honduras in the city of Puerto Cortes, one of the largest harbors in Central America.

J. R. Gonzales of the Houston Chronicle said that the school was " escribed as one of the finest high schools in this part of the country " and " also attracted negative attention for its incredible cost.

Coburn was " one of the original authors " of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act upheld by the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart.