August 4, 1938:  "Justice Peter Schmuck  of the Supreme Court issued a summons yesterday requiring Morris S. Novik, Director of the city-maintained radio station WNYC, to appear next Wednesday before a special committee of the City Council with all the books and records of the station.  The committee…is investigating the station for broadcasting Communist propaganda in February under the guise of a travel tale on Soviet Russia…"

Source: Unidentified item from the New York Post clipping files.

For the whole story see: Communist Propaganda or Capitalist Commercial? A 1930s WNYC Broadcast is Mired in Controversy.
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New / Old Series--New York: A Portrait in Sound
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Whisperings and Musings, a weekly WNYC feature in 1937
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The Granddaddy of WNYC Newsletters brought the latest station happenings to staffers in the armed forces during World War II. The archives has a few rare copies of The Transmitter that our interns Shannon Campbell and Lauren Fiorelli have recently scanned and added to the web.
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The Stabin WNYC Tryptich - Next to Amy Eason's Desk on the 9th floor.