sentences:  In 1931 he joined "Juventudes Castellanas de Acción Hispánica" (Castilian Youth for Spanish Action), a small political group founded in Valladolid by Onésimo Redondo, that would merge with Ramiro Ledesma's "Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista" (Unions of the National-Syndicalist Offensive) and José Antonio Primo de Rivera's "Falange Española".He fought in the Civil War on the Nationalist side and commanded units of Falangist militias.After the war, he was appointed national delegate of Veterans and in 1941 minister of Labor, when he was only 30.